TAXILA: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a suspect on charge of murdering a teenager. The boy’s body was found near Brahma interchange on Aug 18.

Hassanabdal circle Sub Divisional Police Officer DSP Raja Fayyazul Haq said passersby spotted the body and informed police.

He said as the boy was not identified he was buried at a local graveyard. Later the boy was identified by his father after his pictures were circulated through social media.

His father Nisar Khan informed the police that the boy came from Rawalpindi to Taxila to his uncle’s house and later went missing.

Police picked his 19-year-old cousin on suspicion who during interrogation confessed to having killed the boy.

Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2020