Shahzeb Khan murder: Travel agent, airline data operator arrested
FIA reveals Shahrukh Jatoi fled to Dubai with someone else’s boarding pass.
File photo of Shahrukh Jatoi. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
An investigation into a new case registered under the Passport Act against Shahrukh Jatoi – the prime suspect in Shahzeb Khan’s murder – has revealed that he managed to leave the country illegally with the help of a travel agent and an airline data operator.
The revelations were made by an official of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) anti-human trafficking circle before a judicial magistrate on Tuesday. Abdul Shakoor Kalhoro, a judicial magistrate in Malir district, allowed Saeed Ahmed Memon, an investigation officer of the anti-human trafficking circle, to interrogate Jatoi for an additional day in a juvenile jail and remanded the data operator and travel agent in to police custody for four days.
Law enforcement personnel arrested Sohail Ahmed, an agent associated with Fazale Rabbi Travels, and Muhammad Taha Hussain, a data operator at Emirates airlines, for allegedly helping Shahrukh escape the country.
Memon told the court it was revealed during investigations that Jatoi travelled with a boarding pass bearing the name of one Muhammad Ali with the help of Ahmed and Hussain. He requested the court to allow him to interrogate the suspect for one more day as the two accused had been arrested in the case.
The new case was lodged against Jatoi at the FIA police station.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2013.
An investigation into a new case registered under the Passport Act against Shahrukh Jatoi – the prime suspect in Shahzeb Khan’s murder – has revealed that he managed to leave the country illegally with the help of a travel agent and an airline data operator.
The revelations were made by an official of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) anti-human trafficking circle before a judicial magistrate on Tuesday. Abdul Shakoor Kalhoro, a judicial magistrate in Malir district, allowed Saeed Ahmed Memon, an investigation officer of the anti-human trafficking circle, to interrogate Jatoi for an additional day in a juvenile jail and remanded the data operator and travel agent in to police custody for four days.
Law enforcement personnel arrested Sohail Ahmed, an agent associated with Fazale Rabbi Travels, and Muhammad Taha Hussain, a data operator at Emirates airlines, for allegedly helping Shahrukh escape the country.
Memon told the court it was revealed during investigations that Jatoi travelled with a boarding pass bearing the name of one Muhammad Ali with the help of Ahmed and Hussain. He requested the court to allow him to interrogate the suspect for one more day as the two accused had been arrested in the case.
The new case was lodged against Jatoi at the FIA police station.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2013.