KARACHI, Nov 19: Mir Hamid Nawaz Marwat, a city lawyer, and the son of a former Sindh minister, Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat, was found dead in his car on Wednesday.

Imran Mughal, another occupant of the car, and the friend of Hamid Marwat, is struggling for life at the JPMC.

Imran was found in a state of unconsciousness in the car which was spotted along a road in Defence Housing Authority.

Hamid Nawaz, 29, is believed to have died from intoxication, the police said.

Khalid Marwat, brother of the deceased, also a lawyer, got an FIR registered, against his friends stating that they killed him by administering poisonous injections.

TPO Munir Shaikh said that the police spotted the car (ACS-929) with its two occupants near Defence gardens, and the two were lying unconscious. They were shifted to JPMC where one of them was pronounced dead on arrival. He was later identified as Mr Hamid Nawaz.

Mr Munir said that the unconscious youth regained his consciousness and told the police that they were injecting heroin through syringes. He also disclosed the names of two of his more friends, who escaped from the scene. The police picked them up, and they have been identified as Shehzad Qureshi alias Tipu and Umair Al-Khairi.

Giving details about he incident, ASP Kashif Kanju said Mir Nawaz left his home in Karsaz late Tuesday night telling his family that he was going for shopping. He picked his friend Imran Mughal from PECHS and went to Defence Society where Tipu joined them. Later they picked Umair Al-Khairi from his home in Phase-IV commercial and roamed on streets in Defence Authority.

Mr Kanju said that the police found syringes. The SMS messages on mobile phone of Hamid advised him not to take drugs as these were harmful for his health. It suggested that Hamid was a chronic drug addict.

He said the postmortem examination of the body of the deceased was performed and initial findings suggested that the cause of death was poisoning. His body viscera were sent to histopathological examination and chemical test, which would be matched with the material found in the syringes.

Mr Munir, quoting the doctors at the JPMC, said a person, who consumed drugs needed more fresh air and in case of Hamid, the passage of air was sealed.

He said Tipu and Umair told the police that they had called Edhi ambulance after Hamid and Imran fainted. As the Edhi ambulance did not reach there, they got panicky, locked the car and fled to save their skin. It was a negligence on their part and they could be tried under section 319 for unintentional murder.

However, the brother of the deceased in the FIR stated that his brother was intentionally killed by giving him poisonous injections. The police registered the FIR under section 302 of the PPC and arrested Umair, Tipu and Imran for killing Hamid.

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