Laptop of missing Canadian recovered from suspect
According to Hussain's confession, Gill was strangled inside the car and her body was dumped in Khanpur Canal.
Gill's mobile phone has been traced, man currently using the phone has agreed to surrender it to the police, says police. DESIGN: SIDRAH MOIZ KHAN/FILE
LAHORE:
The police have recovered the laptop of Canadian Sikh Rajvindar Kaur Gill from one of her alleged killers and found the car in which she was murdered, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Officials close to the investigation said that the laptop had been recovered from Hafiz Shehzad Hussain and family members had confirmed that the laptop belonged to Gill. A judicial magistrate remanded Hussain in the custody of the Crimes Investigation Agency for five days on Monday.
The officials said that Gill was picked up from Allama Iqbal International Airport by Hussain and his relative Shahid Ghazanfar, the other main suspect in the murder, in a rented vehicle. Gill was strangled inside the car and her body was dumped in Khanpur Canal, according to Hussain’s confession. The car was then returned.
“We don’t have possession of the car yet, but we believe there might be evidence in there that will help the prosecution’s case,” said the police officials.
Gill’s mobile phone, which Hussain told police he had sold to a shop at Hall Road, has also been traced, the officials said. It was being used in Karachi and is now in use in Quetta.
The man currently using the phone has agreed to surrender it to the police, the officials added. Police officials have visited Khanpur Canal to look for Gill’s body, but it has not been found yet. Ghazanfar, a German national of Pakistani origin, is believed to have fled to Germany after the murder. The victim’s father, Sikandar Singh Gill, said that he had seen the laptop the police had recovered and pictures of her and her family on it. He said that in four months of lobbying governments, police and the courts to push for his daughter’s recovery, this was the first solid proof he had seen that she had been in Pakistan. He said that for the first time, he was hopeful that he would get answers about what happened to his daughter.
Meanwhile, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood of the Lahore High Court on Monday disposed of Sikandar Singh Gill’s petition for his daughter’s recovery in view of the progress in the investigation of the case.
DSP Khalid Abu Bakar told the court that one of the suspected killers had been arrested and evidence seized from him. The police have contacted Interpol to seek the arrest of the other main suspect, Ghazanfar, in Germany, he added. Advocate Aftab Bajwa, counsel for Sikandar Gill, asked the court to freeze the victim’s bank accounts in Switzerland and Canada, as they were still operating. The judge asked the DSP to write to the banks.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 8th, 2013.
The police have recovered the laptop of Canadian Sikh Rajvindar Kaur Gill from one of her alleged killers and found the car in which she was murdered, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Officials close to the investigation said that the laptop had been recovered from Hafiz Shehzad Hussain and family members had confirmed that the laptop belonged to Gill. A judicial magistrate remanded Hussain in the custody of the Crimes Investigation Agency for five days on Monday.
The officials said that Gill was picked up from Allama Iqbal International Airport by Hussain and his relative Shahid Ghazanfar, the other main suspect in the murder, in a rented vehicle. Gill was strangled inside the car and her body was dumped in Khanpur Canal, according to Hussain’s confession. The car was then returned.
“We don’t have possession of the car yet, but we believe there might be evidence in there that will help the prosecution’s case,” said the police officials.
Gill’s mobile phone, which Hussain told police he had sold to a shop at Hall Road, has also been traced, the officials said. It was being used in Karachi and is now in use in Quetta.
The man currently using the phone has agreed to surrender it to the police, the officials added. Police officials have visited Khanpur Canal to look for Gill’s body, but it has not been found yet. Ghazanfar, a German national of Pakistani origin, is believed to have fled to Germany after the murder. The victim’s father, Sikandar Singh Gill, said that he had seen the laptop the police had recovered and pictures of her and her family on it. He said that in four months of lobbying governments, police and the courts to push for his daughter’s recovery, this was the first solid proof he had seen that she had been in Pakistan. He said that for the first time, he was hopeful that he would get answers about what happened to his daughter.
Meanwhile, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood of the Lahore High Court on Monday disposed of Sikandar Singh Gill’s petition for his daughter’s recovery in view of the progress in the investigation of the case.
DSP Khalid Abu Bakar told the court that one of the suspected killers had been arrested and evidence seized from him. The police have contacted Interpol to seek the arrest of the other main suspect, Ghazanfar, in Germany, he added. Advocate Aftab Bajwa, counsel for Sikandar Gill, asked the court to freeze the victim’s bank accounts in Switzerland and Canada, as they were still operating. The judge asked the DSP to write to the banks.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 8th, 2013.