28 June 2004	Monday	09 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425

LAHORE, June 27: Police on Sunday took into custody 10 people in connection with the murder of Punjab PML-(N vice-president Pir Binyamin Rizvi. However, no major breakthrough was reported.

"We are questioning several people in connection with the triple murder," city police chief DIG Tariq Saleem said, and added the case was being investigated from different aspects. Chiefly, he said, it seemed to be an outcome of old enmity.

Investigator SP Tahir Alam said besides the old enmity there could be a possibility of sectarianism as the motive behind the crime. He said there had been a sectarian clash in Phalia, the native town of the parliamentarian, some tow years.

He said the politician had taken part in the follow-ups of the clash. Of the old rivalry, the SP said the former minister had been nominated in the murder of Maj Muhammad Azam (retired), who was his political rival.

The investigator said that evidence collected from the scene was sent to the laboratory. It included finger prints and empties of the automatic weapons used in the crime, he added.

On the other hand, the bodies were returned to the families after autopsy. The bodies of the gunman and the driver were taken to their native towns.