Man confesses to murder, says deceased staged his own kidnapping
Murder suspect says that the deceased had planned to dupe his father into paying ransom.
Murder suspect says that the deceased had planned to dupe his father into paying ransom .
HYDERABAD:
When 24-year-old Bilal Memon staged the fake kidnapping of his 15-year-old friend, Wajdan Memon, they had both hoped for easy money. What they didn’t take into account was how the anxiety of faking a kidnapping would cost one of them their life.
For Wajdan’s family, the boy went missing in the afternoon of June 11 and they soon realised that he was kidnapped. His father also received a ransom call to pay Rs2 million for his release. “I didn’t take that call seriously until late in the night when it got late and we started to worry,” Wajdan’s father, Muhammad Javed Memon, told the police. A complaint was also registered at the Sakhi Pir police station on the same day by Muhammad Javed, who is a builder and real estate agent by profession.
A day after he went missing, Wajdan’s bullet-riddled body was found stuffed in a suitcase thrown in a field. The female growers, who came to the field on the morning of June 12, spotted the suitcase which was covered in a gunny bag. “They saw one of the legs of the slain boy and called the police,” said Budhani police SHO Mumtaz Thebo. “One of the bullets hit the boy’s right temple.”
The police tracked down the kidnapper by tracing the number from which the ransom call was made. “We traced the number and found that the SIM (subscriber identity module) was registered on Wajdan’s name and the mobile set belonged to Bilal,” SPP Hyderabad Saqib Ismail Memon told a press conference on Friday.
Mystery unfolds
“Wajdan got nervous after his father refused to pay ransom. I came to know that a complaint had also been registered with the police. I found myself trapped in the plot and wanted to distance myself from it,” Bilal told the police in his post-arrest confession of Wajdan’s murder. Bilal, however, claims that he did not intend to fire but only pointed the gun at Wajdan so that the deceased would cooperate. “I had taken out the gun’s magazine, not knowing that a bullet has already been loaded in the chamber.” The police also found the weapon and are looking for possible accomplices in the crime.
The family, however, differs with Bilal’s version which has also found consonance of the police. Muhammad Javed said that his son could never be part of a staged kidnapping as he had been providing the family a good living.
A case has been registered in the Sakhi Pir police station on Muhammad Javed’s complaint, nominating Bilal and unknown persons for the kidnapping and murder.
Bilal was a neighbour of Wajdan, who was a resident of Farid Plaza in Liaquat Colony and student of grade nine. Bilal owns a small factory of papar - a crispy disc-shaped snack made of gram flour.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2013.
When 24-year-old Bilal Memon staged the fake kidnapping of his 15-year-old friend, Wajdan Memon, they had both hoped for easy money. What they didn’t take into account was how the anxiety of faking a kidnapping would cost one of them their life.
For Wajdan’s family, the boy went missing in the afternoon of June 11 and they soon realised that he was kidnapped. His father also received a ransom call to pay Rs2 million for his release. “I didn’t take that call seriously until late in the night when it got late and we started to worry,” Wajdan’s father, Muhammad Javed Memon, told the police. A complaint was also registered at the Sakhi Pir police station on the same day by Muhammad Javed, who is a builder and real estate agent by profession.
A day after he went missing, Wajdan’s bullet-riddled body was found stuffed in a suitcase thrown in a field. The female growers, who came to the field on the morning of June 12, spotted the suitcase which was covered in a gunny bag. “They saw one of the legs of the slain boy and called the police,” said Budhani police SHO Mumtaz Thebo. “One of the bullets hit the boy’s right temple.”
The police tracked down the kidnapper by tracing the number from which the ransom call was made. “We traced the number and found that the SIM (subscriber identity module) was registered on Wajdan’s name and the mobile set belonged to Bilal,” SPP Hyderabad Saqib Ismail Memon told a press conference on Friday.
Mystery unfolds
“Wajdan got nervous after his father refused to pay ransom. I came to know that a complaint had also been registered with the police. I found myself trapped in the plot and wanted to distance myself from it,” Bilal told the police in his post-arrest confession of Wajdan’s murder. Bilal, however, claims that he did not intend to fire but only pointed the gun at Wajdan so that the deceased would cooperate. “I had taken out the gun’s magazine, not knowing that a bullet has already been loaded in the chamber.” The police also found the weapon and are looking for possible accomplices in the crime.
The family, however, differs with Bilal’s version which has also found consonance of the police. Muhammad Javed said that his son could never be part of a staged kidnapping as he had been providing the family a good living.
A case has been registered in the Sakhi Pir police station on Muhammad Javed’s complaint, nominating Bilal and unknown persons for the kidnapping and murder.
Bilal was a neighbour of Wajdan, who was a resident of Farid Plaza in Liaquat Colony and student of grade nine. Bilal owns a small factory of papar - a crispy disc-shaped snack made of gram flour.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2013.