Two brothers gunned down on flyover

Double murder likely to be motivated by personal enmity, says SSP

KARACHI:

Two brothers were gunned down on the FTC Flyover on Monday morning reportedly in an attack motivated by personal enmity.

According to South SSP Zubair Nazeer Shaikh, the brothers, identified as Syed Abid Hussain Shah, 50, and Syed Sajid Hussain Shah, 52, were on a motorcycle and were returning from a hearing at the Karachi city court when they were attacked.

The brothers were shot dead by unidentified assailants, who were also on a motorcycle when they opened fire at the deceased. Both the brothers died on the spot and their bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

As many as eight spent bullet shells were retrieved from the crime scene and have been sent for forensic analysis, said the SSP, adding that the police have launched a further investigation after gathering more evidence and recording the statements of the deceased's family.

The deceased hailed from Mansehra and were living in Karachi's Chanesar Goth.

SSP Shaikh further said that it appears that the murders were motivated by personal enmity as Sajid was involved in a dispute with his brother-in-law.

Speaking to the media at JPMC, deceased Abid's son, Syed Shehryar stated that his uncle, Sajid, was having marital troubles and subsequently entered a dispute with his brother-in-law, Syed Shahnawaz Shah.

Shehryar maintained that the dispute had also resulted in a clash earlier, after which the brother-in-law and his accomplices lodged a case against Abid and Sajid. He further said that they had been receiving threats from the accused suspects as well and they had lodged another 'false' FIR pertaining to a robbery against the deceased at Baloch Colony Police Station and another one against Sajid, pertaining to a rickshaw he owned, at Noor Jahan Police Station.

According to Shehryar, Sajid was arrested by the Anti-Vehicle Lifting Cell from his house and was returning from the hearing of the rickshaw case when the brothers were gunned down.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9^th, 2021.