Failure to repay creditor costs shepherd his life

KURIANWALA:

A shepherd was killed and his body was thrown in a sugarcane field allegedly for not paying back the money had had borrowed.

Police took the body into custody and handed it over to his family after postmortem.

The accused was arrested along with the murder weapon and a case was registered against him.

According to the police report, Parveen Bibi, wife of Muhammad Iqbal, a resident of Chak no 67 RB Bada Malwala, informed the police that her brother-in-law, 60-year-old Mangta alias Kalu, had been living with her husband.

He used to graze his five personal goats and the goats of other villagers.

At 2pm on July 6, he took goats to the fields but did not return.  “We kept looking for him on our own, but we could not find my brother-in-law Mangta. This morning, his body was found lying ... in a sugarcane field of Babar, son of Gulab...,” she said.

Police said that the complainant accused one Arif Ali, a resident of the village, of killing her brother-in-law by stabbing him in the head and neck with a sharp tool over a dispute over non-payment of Rs3,500, which he had borrowed some time ago.

On the instructions of the SP of Juranwala, Artaza Kamil, Balochni Police, led by DSP of Khurrianwala, Usman Warraich, the SHO of Balochni Police Station, Sub-Inspector Talesh Abbas, with their team conducted raids in different areas and arrested the accused Arif Ali within 24 hours of the incident.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 9^th, 2022.