Two men killed in separate cases of violence

Cops are collecting evidence to apprehend the six accused in the cases

KHURARIANWALA:

In two separate incidents of violence, two men were killed by armed assailants on Monday. Police shifted the bodies to the hospital for postmortem examination and registered separate cases against the suspects involved murders.

Official sources asserted that police have started launching raids for the arrest of the murder suspects.

According to the police report, 32-year-old Ajmal son of Razzaq, a resident of Chak No 105 RB, had an altercation with Mehran Ali and his brother Ehsan Ali, residents of the same village. The matter was apparently diffused by the villagers.

However, the siblings enraged by the row intercepted Ajmal when he was returning home from a shop and shot at him lethally. The accused then fled the crime scene in a car as per eye witness account.

Khurrianwala police handed over the body of the deceased to his father Razzaq after postmortem examination and registered a case under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

In the second incident, Zafar Iqbal, a resident of Mohalla Sharifpura street no 5, had set up a cotton vest shop in street no 2 of Chamra Mandi along with his partner Zubair.

On the other hand, Ali Hassan and Ijaz had enmity with regard to business dealings with Zubair. For this reason, Ali Hassan and Ijaz along with six accomplices raided the shop, jointly owned by the duo, armed with sticks. The suspects then beat Zafar Iqbal mercilessly with wooden sticks and threw him on ground when he tried to protect his shop. As a result, he was critically injured and was rushed to Allied Hospital by the Rescue 1122 staff, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Factory Area Police reached the spot on information and took possession of the body of the deceased and handed it over to his brother Javed Iqbal after an autopsy.

They also collected forensic evidence from the crime scene and registered a murder case against the four accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15^th, 2020.