KARACHI: Suspected killers of 12-year-old arrested
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 29: A joint operation of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee and the Anti-Violent Crime Cell led to the arrest of members of a gang involved in the kidnapping and killing of a young boy in Landhi.
A statement issued by the CPLC said that on September 9 2006 Sadaqat reported to the CPLC that his 12-year-old son Owais had been kidnapped.
On the night of November 27/28, the investigation team apprehended accused Farhan in Korangi.
His arrest also led to the rounding up of his accomplice Umair, who was picked up in Landhi. However, their third accomplice, Raheel, was still absconding, the statement added.
The investigation team also found the body of Owais in a nullah where the suspects had dumped it after killing the boy.
During interrogation the accused confessed that the boy was taken to a house in Noorani Basti in Korangi where he was tied up and killed.
Later they threw his body into the Korangi nullah and started calling his father for ransom.
Umair, the son of a maidservant of the complainant, decided to first kill the boy so that he could not be identified.
Meanwhile, the accused kept negotiating the ransom amount with the father of the victim, the statement recalled.
ACCIDENTS: Two persons died in road accidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday.
Police said the conductor of a minibus, Muhammad Azad, was crushed beneath his own vehicle at the Shahrah-i-Quaideen Bridge when the minibus was negotiating a sharp turn.
The victim was the conductor of the minibus of R-1route. His body was taken to the Jinnah Hospital for legal formalities, police added.
In another accident, a young motorcyclist died of head injury when his vehicle skidded on M.A Jinnah Road on Wednesday morning.
Police said Abdul Aziz was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police said the accident might have been caused by the early morning rain.
