Sahil police yet to solve murder mystery

KARACHI:

The Sahil police are yet to trace the missing wife of 35-year-old Jahanzeb who was found murdered in his 20th floor flat of a residential building in Sea View Do Darya Defence Phase 8. The car of the deceased was found abandoned near Sukkur, which was taken by his wife after the incident.

According to the details, the body of Jahanzeb was found killed by a shot on the back of the head. Sahil police had registered the case on the complaint of the victim's father Ghulam Rasool, while the plaintiff had given a statement to the police after the incident that he called his son several times on his mobile but got no answer. "When I reached my son's house no one opened the door. Later, after breaking the door, when I went inside, I found the son's body lying there and the daughter-in-law was not present at home." The father of the deceased said that my son had two cars which used to be parked in the basement parking of the apartment building, but one of the cars was missing. I inquired there and took out the CCTV footage, in which my daughter-in-law was seen going in the car in the morning.

Shah Mir, the brother of the deceased Jahanzeb, said that they hailed from Faisalabad, while his brother had an electronics shop in Defence Khadda Market. "My brother's white Toyota Corolla car was seen taking away by his wife in the CCTV footage, which was later found abandoned in the parking area near the bus stand within the limits of Sukkur Babarlu police station on Saturday.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 10^th, 2024.