October 12, 2008	Sunday	Shawwal 12, 1429

KARACHI, Oct 11: A 24-year-old man was found shot dead on Saturday in his flat in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

The Sharea Faisal police said that the victim, Ameet Kumar, son of Ghanshiam, was a car dealer and hailed from Nawabshah.

They said the car dealer was the owner of the flat (402) on the fourth floor of Shumail Arcade where his bullet-riddled body was found.

The police said that the victim frequently shuttled between Karachi and his hometown and used to stay at his flat during his business trips.

The police said that the victim’s family contacted a maternal uncle and friends of the victim in Karachi when they found his cellular phone constantly switched off.

ASI Nadeem Ahmed of the Sharea Faisal police told Dawn that the victim’s relatives and friends reached his flat to find the man shot dead and later they reported the matter to the police.

The victim’s maternal uncle, Kheromal, told Dawn that he reached the victim’s flat at around 3pm.

He said the victim, the eldest among the five siblings, was a student at Quaid-i-Awam Engineering University and his father and paternal uncles were car dealers. “Ameet was a very nice and courteous young man,” he added.

He said the members of the victim’s family were mainly businessmen and none of them ever indulged in any conflict or controversy. “I am unable to understand why and for what Ameet was killed,” he added.

Mr Kheromal, an insurance agent by profession, said that the body was dispatched to the victim’s hometown for the last rites.

Earlier, an Edhi ambulance shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem examination.

Sources at the JPMC’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim was shot four bullets, one in his leg and the others in the upper torso, from a close range.

The police said the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity. They ruled out the possibility of the victim being killed by bandits during robbery at his flat as the victim’s two expensive cellular phones were found lying beside the body.

The police said the watchman of the building heard gunshots and saw two men run away at around 10.30am.

They said the body was handed over to the victim’s family after legal proceedings.

No case, they said, was however registered till late as the police were still waiting for a complainant from the victim’s family.

Meanwhile, a 28-year-old man was electrocuted while fixing a fault on a hoarding near Malir Halt on Sharea Faisal.

An ambulance of Chheepa Welfare Trust shifted the body to the JPMC where the victim was identified as Abdur Razzaque, son of Dawood.