GILGIT: The Gilgit police have arrested two constables in connection with murder of two police personnel.

According to an official handout issued here on Sunday, the arrested personnel were named Iftikhar Hussain and Mushtaq Hussain. They were picked in the alleged murder of an elite force constable, Iqbal Hussain, and a special branch man, Manzoom Hussain, in Sakwar area of Gilgit on Friday evening. The FIR of the murder was registered with Jutial police station, in which the two police constables were nominated by the complainant.

According to the handout, another two policemen, including SHO Jutial police station Abdul Hadi, had been suspended in the same case. The region’s IGP has also constituted a committee headed by SP Tanveer ul Hassan to conduct an inquiry against the suspended personnel.

An official of Gilgit police told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the two policemen might have been killed in retaliation to the murder of an army soldier in Gilgit recently.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2015

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