SANGHAR, Oct 31: A team of Hyderabad police, led by the DSP, Imdad Shah and inspectors Ali Sher Rahu and Anwar Lakho, have begun an inquiry into the murder case of Shazia and Muhammad Hassan Solangi.

The couple was killed near the DPO office in Sanghar after they had tied the nuptial knot.

The team reached Sanghar on Wednesday and recorded statements of various people.

The investigating officers specially focused on the Nikahnama which the parents of Shazia Khaskheli had presented to the Sanghar police and claimed that she was already married to Hazoor Bux Khaskheli and the marriage took place in Feb 2003.

The Hyderabad police team took into custody Hazoor Bux and a witness to the Nikah.

The police also arrested the taxi driver who brought the couple from an unknown place near Jhol to Sanghar in his taxi on the day when the couple was caught near the DPO office.

Apart from that, the police detained another person at whose residence the couple had stayed for their last night near Jhol.

All the detainees have been shifted to an unknown place outside district Sanghar.

Meanwhile, the station house officer, Zahid Ahmed Nasir has been transferred from the Sanghar police station. He is the one who lodged the FIR of the murder case of Shazia and Muhammad Hassan Solangi.

SHO Jeeandal Shah has replaced him.

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