Investigators claim that they used the victims, Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) legal adviser Fahim-ul-Kareem Sarwat, his friend Wajid Mughal and Mughal’s assistant Quratulain, phones to trace the suspects - a technique previously used by Frere police station DSP Zameer Abbasi in the Murtaza Chinoy case. This investigation was led by Abbasi who added that the authorities had also used the mobile phone records to follow the suspects.
He said that the murder took place over a financial dispute and the prime suspect was a young girl named Tazeem and her friend Rehan had acted as an accomplice. “Basically, Mughal owed the girl Rs60,000 and whenever she went to ask for the money he never returned it,” he said. The DSP added that both suspects lived in Mauripur and had known Mughal for at least seven years.
Fahim’s brother Noman told The Express Tribune that his family was glad that the culprits had been caught. He added that Mughal and his brother had agreed to pay the suspects but Tazeem and Rehan might have wanted to blackmail them. “If my brother had been guilty then the suspects would not have been caught,” he said.
The investigation report showed that Tazeem had confessed to have worked with Mughal and loaning Rs60,000 to him. In her police statement, she said that Mughal and Fahim abused her verbally and physically whenever she went to Fahim’s office to ask for the money. Tazeem claimed that she had made up her mind to kill them when the two men had called her to the office under false pretences and had tried to rape her. The suspect confessed that she had asked Rehan to call Mughal and had asked him to forget about the money and arrange a party instead. In the report the suspect admitted that Rehan had helped her mix sleeping pills in tea and served it to the others.
As soon as they fell unconscious, Tazeem strangled Quratulain with her dupatta and then shot Mughal twice and Fahim once after binding his hands and legs. The DSP said that Rehan had confessed to stealing a revolver from one of his neighbours and had given it to Tazeem. KESC corporate communications director Ayesha Eirabie told The Express Tribune that her department had never claimed that Fahim was killed over KESC related issues and had no objection to the police investigation.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2011.
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it is engineered police story just to mitigate the Chief Justice pressure over police. No doubt these two person are involved but crime scene clearly shows that this crime has been committed by more than 5 or 6 culprits.
I wish she wasn't caught.