ISLAMABAD: Police have arrested four friends of a national volleyball player after he fell to death from the fifth floor of a building in the capital.

Chaudhry Mohsin Farooq, 30, a native of Kalar Sydan, was brought dead to a state-run-hospital. His friends told the police that he died after falling from a multi-storey building in Bahria Town.

But Mr Ikhlaq, an uncle of the deceased, alleged that his nephew’s four friends had murdered him, and lodged a complaint against them, said the police. In response, the police arrested the suspects and started an investigation.

Preliminarily investigation showed that Farooq along with his four friends had come to the capital on Monday and hired two flats in the housing society for a night. One of the flats was located on the third floor and the other on the fifth floor.

Later, the group was joined by four women and after sometimes one of the women left the building. They remained on the third floor for some time and later some of them, including Farooq and a woman, went to the fifth floor.

After sometimes the footballer fell down from the balcony of the fifth floor flat and the three women left the area, said the police. Shortly afterwards, Farooq’s friends took him to hospital but he died on the way.

The deceased suffered head injuries and fractures, the police stated. The uncle of the deceased nominated all the friends in the murder case.

The police arrested the suspects from different parts of the capital, said the police, adding they would be produced in court for seeking remand.

Efforts were in progress to identify and trace the four women.

Published in Dawn, November 27th, 2019