BADIN: Police released on Friday the four suspects, who were arrested over mysterious death of their friend, Asad Ali Leghari, in Tando Bago on Oct 30, claiming the investigators had not so far found any evidence linking them to Legahri’s death.

The suspects Furqan Magsi, Awais Ahmed Magsi, Tauseef Ahmed Memon and Faheem Ahmed Samoon, were nominated in an FIR lodged against them by Dr Naeem Ahmed Memon, maternal uncle of Leghari, said Tando Bago SHO Hakim Ali Jalbani.

Police of both Tando Bago and Kotri claimed to have found no evidence against the suspects during investigation and thereby released them under certain powers vested in the investigators under Pakistan Penal Code, he said.

Late Leghari, who was to fly to USA to pursue higher education after completing his degree at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, and his friends were reportedly partying in an office of a housing scheme in Tando Bago when Leghari’s condition deteriorated and he was taken to nearby taluka hospital where he died before getting medical help early on Oct 30.

The shocked friends sought help of chairman of Tando Bago town committee who took Leghari him to hospital. The suspects had claimed at that time Leghari had died after consuming liquor and overdose of some ‘pills’ during the party.

The suspects were detained at Tando bago police station but later they were handed over to Kotri police on the directives of DIG Hyderabad a few days back.

Siraj Lashari, SHO of Kotri polcie station, stated in the civil court of Tando Bago that after through interrogation in police custody the suspects were not found guilty of ‘murder’ directly or indirectly.

Therefore, he said, police had no justification to keep them in custody anymore. “The boy, according to the initial post mortem report, had apparently died from an overdose of some imported ‘pills’,” he added.

Mr Lashari told journalists that the suspects could be picked up again if they were found guilty in the light of the final report of the autopsy, which was still being awaited.

The post mortem of Mr Leghari was conducted by a board of three doctors, who had initially said that overdose of some ‘pills’ might be the main cause of the boy’s death.

Asad Ali Leghari, 25, was the only son of slain Sindh United Party leader Anwar Leghari who was also killed in a murderous attack in Qasimabad, Hyderabad, during local bodies’ polls in November 2015.

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2017