PESHAWAR: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a man, who killed a transgender person last month.

The incident had taken place on October 21 when police found the body of an unidentified transgender person in Ashiqabad locality in the limits of Mathra police station.

A statement issued here on Monday said that police investigators identified the deceased as Nawabzada alias Hajra, a resident of Battagram district in Hazara division.

Hajra family members told police that she had left her home some three months ago after an argument with them and had not returned since then.

Police identified the arrested man as Farhan, a resident of Mashogagar. The arrested man told police during investigation that he was a friend of Hajra and he spent thousands of rupees on her.

He said that he killed Hajra when she ended friendship with him, said the statement. It said that the arrested man threw the knife, he used to kill Hajra, into the Gulbahar Canal.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2017