‘Murderer’ killed in ‘encounter’
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A man, Afzal, was killed in an alleged police encounter.
The suspect was accused of killing a man and a boy by slitting their throats.
However, no further details about how and where the police encounter took police in which the suspect died could be known.
Meanwhile, Burewala was in the grip of a shock when the people of the district learnt about the double murder that took place the other night and which was said to be the doing of Afzal.
Afzal allegedly killed two people, one of them being only 14-years-old, in a tailor’s shop by slitting their throats.
Nazir Ahmed, 65, owned an embroidery shop adjacent to an old factory near Mana Mor in Gaggoo Mandi.
Inundated by customers’ orders and the compulsion to meet the deadlines, Nazir got so exhausted that he decided to sleep in the shop last night along with his 14-year-old trainee, Faheem.
They never woke up.
When the shop didn’t open at its usual time people in the market became curious. As time went by, their curiosity turned into fright.
Ultimately the shutter of the shop was broken and the bodies of Nazir and Faheem were found soaked in blood.
The horrified people informed the police who reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the THQ Hospital for postmortem.
They collected evidence from the crime scene.
A son of late Nazir had told the police that Muhammad Afzal owed his father Rs60,000. Afzal was a resident of the same village. However, Afzal had not been returning the loan, and the matter had come to a pass.
Nazir’s son surmised that Afzal had been behind the murder of his father and the boy.
Deaths of accused in police custody is not uncommon in Punjab. In December last year, a young man died allegedly after being subjected to torture by police, prompting his relatives to stage a protest demonstration and move an application for registration of a case against police officials in Vehari.
Taking notice of the incident, the DPO of Vehari ordered SP investigations Rubina Abbas to take the body of the deceased, identified as Imran Baloch, into custody.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2023.