Police still struggling to identify murdered transgender person

Officials say team has been sent to Mansehra to trace victim’s family

PESHAWAR: Officials have been unable to identify a person, who was transgender, and had been brutally slaughtered in the provincial capital last week.

Zahoor Khan, in charge of a police check post in Ashiqabad area of Mathra, told The Express Tribune that they had arrested several people in connection with the murder.



He added that they had also generated some leads towards the identification of the victim, with some information suggesting that the victim hailed from the Ogai area of Manshera.

Zahoor said that they had sent a team of investigators to Mansehra to trace his family.

“We have taken fingerprints of the victim and have sent it to the National Database Regulatory Authority (NADRA) for identification but are still waiting on the results,” he added.

He conceded that there were some speculations regarding the victim’s identity but these have yet to be confirmed.

“We have been told that this transgender lived in the Juna Market of Karachi and had recently shifted to Peshawar where she was living with a guru for the past three days,” Zahoor said, adding that the guru too did not know much about the victim either.

He hoped that the mystery behind the murder would be solved in the coming days since they had picked up several suspects.



The person who was a transgender had been found murdered in a deserted place in Ashiqabad area of the city. By the time officials discovered it, the body had been there for at least three days and was badly decomposed.

“The murder was well planned as she has been slaughtered with ease and apparently she did not put up any resistance,” the police officer explained.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2017.