Youth ‘shot dead over monetary dispute’
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A property dealer’s son was reportedly shot dead by friends in their house over a Rs200,000 transaction dispute. Police registered a case against four suspects and arrested three of them.
According to the police, Umar Zeb, a property dealer and resident of Zulfiqar Colony, stated in his complaint that his 26-year-old son Mohammad Ahmad Khan asked Yasir alais Shan to return the money he had borrowed earlier.
Zeb said, “My son had demanded money from him many times but he was not paying him back. I went to the house of Yasir with my son, Naveed Khan, Shahzeb to collect the money. The door was open and when we went there, Yasir alias Shaan was not in the house.”
Meanwhile, Yasir came armed with Mohammad Waqas, Mohammad Rameez Pervez and Hasnain Mushtaq. Zeb added, “As soon as he arrived, he shot my son Mohammad Ahmad Khan in the right arm. We were taking him to the hospital in a private car when he died on the way.”
The suspects Yasir allegedly killed Ahmad with the help of his accomplices including Waqas and others.
Police arrested the three accomplices nominated in the case, Waqas, Rameez and Hasnain, and started raids to find the main suspect. In a similar on May 2 last year, a man was held for allegedly killing a friend after quarrelling over a petty amount of Rs6,000.
Sanda investigations police claimed to have arrested the man named Zahid Mahmood who had killed his friend Abbas Ali alias Jagnu over the monetary dispute in Lahore.
According to police, Zahid, a close friend of Abbas, confessed to killing him. Abbas had rented a house separately from his wife and children where he and Zahid allegedly consumed illicit substances.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2021.