KARACHI: A judicial magistrate reco­rded on Saturday the confessional statements of a teenage girl and her fiancé in a case pertaining to the murder of her younger sister in a Malir area.

The 18-year-old girl and her fiancé have been booked for allegedly killing her 16-year-old sister during what the police claimed was a staged robbery in her Malir home on Dec 5. Two brothers have also been held for abetting them.

After the end of their four-day police remand, the investigating officer produced the suspects before a judicial magistrate (East) and informed the court that the girl and her fiancé were willing to record their confessional statements under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

After completing legal formalities, the magistrate recorded their confessional statements.

The girl admitted that she killed her sister since the victim was blackmailing her while her fiancé said that he and the female suspect slit the victim’s throat.

Suspect records confessional statement in college student’s murder case

After recording their confessional statements, the magistrate sent the suspects to prison on judicial remand and directed the IO to complete the investigations and come up with a progress report.

The parents of the female suspect were also present during the hearing.

Police said the teenage girl had, with the help of her fiancé, allegedly orchestrated the murder of her younger sister as the victim had friendship with one of the detained brothers and she allegedly helped both brothers to visit her home in the absence of their parents and to blackmail the female suspect.

Initially, the FIR was lodged under Sections 397 (dacoity or robbery with attempt to cause death or grievous injury) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on a complaint of the deceased’s father at the Saudabad police station.

According to the FIR, two men broke into the house for robbery, stabbed the teenage girl to death for putting up resistance and took away cash, jewellery and other valuables.

However, the IO replaced Section 397 with Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 376 (punishment for rape) and 109 (abetment) of the PPC in the remand papers.

College student murder case

Another judicial magistrate recorded on Saturday the confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of a college student in the Seaview area.

Khawar Hussain Burney, his guard Abdul Rehman and three underage brothers — Haider Hussain Burney, Hasan Hussain Burney and Hasnain Hussain Burney — along with their absconding accomplices have been booked for allegedly killing 18-year-old college student, Zafir Ahmed Zuberi, on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue near Seaview on Dec 3.

The IO moved an application before a judicial magistrate (South) for recording the confessional statement of suspect Rehman and the magistrate recorded his statement under Section 164 of the CrPC.

Later, the magistrate sent the suspect to prison on judicial remand and directed the IO to file an investigation report till Dec 18.

Raza Hussain Burney and his brother Haris Hussain Burney, Danish, Hammad, Noman, Umar Pirwani and a woman, Mehak are absconding in the case.

Police said that the suspects had allegedly gunned down the 18-year-old student and caused injuries to his friend on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue near Seaview after the victims travelling in a Mercedes had hit a motorcyclist who was involved in bike racing near the beach. The motorcyclist’s friends travelling in a Vigo chased them and opened indiscriminate fire on them.

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2017