Sulaiman Lashari murder case: Witnesses identify Salman Abro in the hospital

Witnesses claim that the SSP's son broke into the deceased teenager's house and shot him dead.

KARACHI: Witnesses including the mother and brother of the late Sulaiman Lashari identified the main accused in a court set up at the hospital where he is hospitalised, Express News reported on Thursday.

O’ Levels student Sulaiman Lashari was gunned down at his house in Defence Housing Authority on May 8. He was allegedly killed by the main accused in the case, Salman Abro, who is the son of Sakrand Police Training Centre SSP Ghulam Sarwar Abro.

The identification parade was held at the hospital as the police investigators had decided to move an application in court to conduct the parade of the key accused in the murder case inside the hospital where he is currently under treatment.

The eyewitnesses included Lashari's brother Zeshan, brother-in-law Rahim, mother and servant, all of whom identified Abro from among 10 persons.

During the parade, the witnesses claimed that the SSP's son broke into Sulaiman's house and shot him dead.

Three days ago, four eyewitnesses, including the victim’s mother, brother, brother in-law and a servant, had successfully pinpointed the four accused police officials during the identification parade conducted by the judicial magistrate in district South, Mumtaz Ali Solangi.

The murder

An 18-year-old student of O’ Levels was shot dead at 2am on May 8 while he was studying in his balcony. The young man was allegedly targeted by the SSP’s son who came to Sulaiman’s house along with five police constables to settle an argument.

The guards deployed at Sulaiman’s house had retaliated and the victim’s brother Zeeshan had also joined in after getting his weapon from his room.

Salman was also injured in the exchange of fire and one of his police guards, constable Zaheer Ahmed, was killed. Salman is critically injured and is currently admitted at Ziauddin Hospital. The incident had also left Sulaiman’s guard, Ali Bugti, injured.

An FIR No. 235/2014 has been registered by the deceased’s brother at the Darakhshan police station against Salman and the four police constables – Muhammad Rasheed, Yasin, Maqbool and Imran  – who accompanied him. The name of the deceased police constable has not been added in the FIR, which includes Sections 302, 324 and Anti-Terrorim Act Section seven. The four surviving policemen are in police custody while Salman will be arrested when he recovers from his injuries. The police have also seized the Vigo and the weapons.

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