LARKANA, Nov 20: The fourth district judicial magistrate, Zahid Hussain Metlo, sent a murder accused to jail and remanded another in police custody for four days when they were produced before the court on Thursday.

The accused, Ghulam Mustafa Khokhar, was sent to jail and Mumtaz Ali Khokhar was remanded in police custody.

They were arrested by the Larkana police in the murder case of two children, Lakhmir and Mujahid. In his confession statement before the court, Ghulam Mustafa said Mumtaz, a policeman, had killed the cousins over a land dispute.

Ghulam Mustafa said the insult to Mumtaz’s mother, Kashmir Khatoon, by his maternal uncles had further angered him.

He said Mumtaz had brought the boys to his public call office, located in Shaikh Zayed Colony, on a motorcycle after handing over the bicycle of the boys to a policeman, Ashiq.

He said Mumtaz, his brother-in-law, asked him to park the motorcycle at his quarter and when he returned he had killed the boys.

The accused said he kept silence on the double murder as Mumtaz had threatened him that he would punish his sister if he disclosed the crime.

He said Lakhmir’s body was dumped in a box in the house and that of Mujahid was buried in a storeroom. He said Mumtaz then went to his village and when he returned the next day he asked him to dispose of the bodies.

The accused said the body of Lakhmir was thrown from the roof in an abandoned plot in Shaikh Zayed Colony, where another person was already standing.

He said they buried the body there. He said the next day Mumtaz dug out the body of Mujahid from the storeroom and took it away.