Man arrested for kidnap and murder

Police say suspect confessed during interrogation.

SIALKOT:

The Daska police have arrested a man wanted in a kidnapping and murder case. A police team arrested Idrees who is wanted for kidnapping and killing one Shabana Bibi in Bharokey Kalan village.

Police said the suspect had admitted the crime. The body of the woman was earlier recovered on his indication from a garbage heap near Daska Judicial Complex built along the bank of BRB Canal.The woman had gone missing about the month ago. Police officials said quoted Idrees as saying that he had kidnapped the woman and robbed Rs150,000 from her.

Police said they were interrogating the suspect. They said the body had been handed over to the family after an autopsy at DHQ Civil Hospital.

Street crime

In other incidents of street crime, a police constable, Muhammad Sufian, and a security guard were shot and injured by three unidentified men and valuables including gold jewellery and cell phones worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were taken away from several citizens.

Constable Muhammad Suffian was shot by armed men on Chawinda-Pasrur Road. He was taken to Pasrur THQ Civil Hospital where doctors described his condition as ‘critical’. In Uggoki, a security guard, Muhammad Ashraf, was injured on resisting a robbery at a bakery. The robbers fled after snatching Rs 35,000 from cashier Bashir Ahmed and a gun from the guard. Younus Maseeh was deprived of a car in a robbery in Bhoth village, in the outskirts of Sialkot Cantt; Usman Haider of cash and other valuables wroth Rs300,000 at his shop in Chah Jattan. In Kotli Loharaan-West, three armed men snatched gold ornaments and a cell phone worth of Rs120,000 at gunpoint from Tabassum Iqbal Bibi; in village Nagor-Motra, four armed men looted gold ornaments, cash and other valuables from the house of Muhammad Arif.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2012.