KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded on Thursday a suspect in police custody in a case pertaining to the murder of his teenage sister.

Hayat Khan has been booked for stabbing his 18-year-old sister Sumaira to death in their Fareed Colony house in Orangi Town on Wednesday.

The police produced the suspect before a judicial magistrate (west) and sought his custody for questioning. The court handed him over to the police on four-day physical remand.

The police said the suspect had confessed to have killed his sister because he saw her talking to a youngster on the doorstep of their home and added that the youngster ran away when he arrived there.

Hayat, in his early 20s, told journalists after the hearing that he had repeatedly asked his sister not to go at the door, but she did not listen to him. On the day of the incident he saw her which infuriated him and he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed her four to five times.

According to the investigating officer, after getting wounded the victim begged his brother to take her to hospital, but he refused and tried to escape, but neighbours caught him and informed the police about the incident. The girl was taken to hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries, the police added.

The case was registered at the Mominabad police station on the complaint of the state since the victim’s father had refused to lodge an FIR against his son.

Four terror suspects given in Rangers custody for 90 days

The Rangers informed on Thursday the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts about 90-day preventive detention of four suspects for questioning.

The paramilitary soldiers accompanied by their legal team produced Kashif, aka Kashi; Rahim Baig; Adnan, aka Kaku; and Mohsin, aka Bali, said to be political workers, before the administrative judge of ATCs Karachi along with intimation applications, detention orders and jail warrants.

They informed the court that upon receiving credible information about their involvement in targeted killing, kidnapping and extortion punishable under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, they were placed under three months preventive detention as provided in Section 11-EEEE of the ATA for an inquiry.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2016