Police claim to have solved murder mystery

Bahawalpur police claim to have traced the suspects who were involved in the murder of a boy 10 years back in Mauza Mangwani area.

A spokesman for Bahawalpur police said on Friday that an FIR had been registered at the Abbasnagar Police Station about 10 years back. He said that the plaintiff, Dilshad Ahmad, a resident of Mauza Mangwani, had lodged his complaint with the Station House Officer of the Abbasnagar Police Station, accusing a person of having kidnapped his 11-year-old son, Shahid Iqbal.

The plaintiff submitted that his son had left home for the seminary where he studied but did not return home.

After registration of the FIR, Abbasnagar police conducted an investigation into the case and thoroughly interrogated the accused nominated in the FIR, but the police could not trace the whereabouts of the boy.

The police spokesman said that after a period of 10 years, following some information and on the basis of suspicion, the police arrested a woman.

The police alleged that the suspect had “confessed” during the investigation that “she had buried the body of the boy in the courtyard of her house”.

She allegedly told the police that the boy was killed after he had been hit by a bullet fired by her son, Rashid. Police are investigating the suspect.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 25^th, 2023.