GUJRAT: An eight-year-old son of an expatriate settled in Spain was murdered after being kidnapped by unidentified people at Jassoki village.

Reports said Ameer Hamza, the only child of Sajjad Ahmad, had gone missing on Wednesday evening. The family launched a search for him but in vain. Later, his body was found in an open area of the village.

The Kunjah police shifted the body to the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH) where doctors conducted an autopsy.

The police said there was suspicion that the boy was molested by the suspect before being strangled; however, the initial postmortem report suggested that the deceased had not been raped.

However, the police have collected the evidence and launched an investigation into the case.

They registered a case against unidentified suspects on the complaint of child’s mother Sameera Bibi.

SHOT DEAD: A factory owner was found shot dead in the office of his factory in village Ghazi Chak along GT Road on Thursday.

The deceased was identified as Shafqat Warraich.

The Gujrat Saddar police said the deceased had uploaded a video of his statement on facebook on Thursday morning in which he had hinted at committing suicide and shifting the blame to one of his former business partners.

They said the circumstantial evidence had also suggested that it was an act of suicide.

The deceased was later buried in the village graveyard as his family did not agree to get autopsy conducted.

The family and relatives of Warraich staged a protest demonstration by blocking GT Road. They alleged that a business partner of the deceased had murdered him and demanded a case registered against him.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2018