LAHORE: Police expanded the scope of investigation in the murder of Government College University’s Associate Professor Dr Tanzeem Akbar Cheema and arrested another person.

The fresh arrest came on Bund Road of Shafiqabad where a team of police officials raided the pharmacy of the suspect on Friday.

A police officer told Dawn that a team arrested the suspect who happens to be the boyfriend of the student they had taken into custody for interrogation a day earlier. The boy had been traced on the basis of the call data record (CDR) and the girl’s statement, he said.

During investigation of the case, the investigators found out that the girl student and Dr Cheema had decided to meet on a Ferozepur Road point near Kalma Chowk. He said Dr Cheema had reached there as promised but armed men turned up and shot him dead after a brief conversation with him.

According to the CDR analysis and the CCTV footage provided by the experts of the Safe City Project, the girl was also present at the crime scene when Dr Cheema was murdered, said the official. He said the information about the girl’s presence and her contact with her boyfriend had prompted the law-enforcement agencies to arrest them.

Capital City Police Officer Amin Wains confirmed to Dawn the arrest of another person. He said it was quite strange that the girl was present at the crime scene and this alerted police. He said that at this stage it would be premature to say anything about the direct or indirect involvement of the girl and her boyfriend in the murder of the academic.

Shortly after the arrest of the pharmacist, his family approached the local police station and submitted an application claiming that some armed men in police uniform had kidnapped him from his business point.

Accidents: A man was crushed to death by a bus near Bhobhatian Chowk here on Saturday.

The incident occurred when the student of a private university on Raiwind Road was going to a market on his motorcycle and the bus hit him from the rear. He was later identified from the student card police found in his pocket as Fahad, 26, a resident of Chishtian.

Quoting witnesses, the police said the bus was rashly driven and the driver fled from the scene. Police and Rescue 1122 officials reached the spot and shifted the body to morgue for autopsy.

A number of students from Fahad’s university and his friends also rushed to the site and lodged a protest demanding arrest of the bus driver.

The police registered a case against the unidentified driver.

In a separate accident, an auto rickshaw fell into the canal near Dharampura when its driver lost control allegedly due to rash driving. The driver, later identified as Liaquat Ali, and passenger Akram suffered multiple injuries.

They were shifted to a local hospital by Rescue 1122 personnel.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2018