Bakery worker axed to death in Kamalia

Victim refused to start a business with colleague who attacked him

KAMALIA:

A young man was axed to death during his sleep by a colleague at a bakery in Kamalia on Sunday.

Reportedly, the incident took place after the victim expressed resentment with his colleague and refused to work with him.

CCTV footage of the murder showed the killer assaulting the victim on his head and face with an axe.

Police arrested the suspect with the help of the CCTV footage and recovered the murder weapon. A case was registered against the suspect.

According to the police report, the murder took place inside Imran Bakery located in Mohalla Fazil Deewan, Jundi Waladu area of Toba Tek Singh’s Kamalia tehsil.

The victim identified as 28-year-old Muhammad Ramzan, son of Shafi, a resident of Chak No 294, had been working at the bakery for five years.

The suspect Muhammad Abbas, the son of Abdul Majeed Rahmani and a resident of Chak No 680/21GB, who also worked at the bakery, asked Ramzan to quit his job so that the two could start their own business.

On Ramzan’s refusal to quit his job, Abbas quarrelled with him and, in a fit of rage, hurled abuses at him for not starting the business with him.

After the issue cooled down, Ramzan called his close relative Asghar, the son of Noor and a resident of Chak No 714GB, for some work at the bakery.

Asghar, who worked as a craftsman, arrived at the bakery to see Ramzan.

After being exhausted from the day’s work, Ramzan went to the bakery warehouse and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the suspect Abbas came to the warehouse under the pretext of taking some goods from the bakery.

When he saw that Ramzan was sleeping, he first drank water and then picked up an axe and hit the victim on the head repeatedly. He then axed the victim in the face.

As a result of the assault, Ramzan died on the spot.

Later, the killer put a cloth over the victim’s face to cover up his crime. He again went to the warehouse, drank water and continued his work.

The video of the murder was recorded by a CCTV camera installed in the warehouse.

When Ramzan did not wake up, Asghar went to see him and found him dead.

He informed the bakery owner and they saw the footage of CCTV cameras.

They quietly informed Kamalia city police station. A police team arrived at the crime scene, detained the suspect and interrogated him. However, the suspected killer denied his involvement in the murder.

The suspect did not know that there was a CCTV camera in the warehouse, which had recorded the murder.

When he was shown the video by police, he confessed to the murder.

Kamalia city police registered a case under section 302 PPC against Abbas on the complaint of Muhammad Sarwar, brother of Ramzan. Police also seized the murder weapon.

Asghar told The Express Tribune that he had gone to the bakery for some work where Ramzan told him that he had a quarrel with Abbas. “I asked Ramzan what the conflict was about. Ramzan said he was insulted by Abbas simply because he refused to start a business with the suspect.”

 

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2021.