LAHORE: Shalimar police claim to have traced on Wednesday the murder case of a prayer leader who was allegedly killed by ‘unknown’ men at his quarter attached to the mosque.

The police arrested the wife of deceased ‘A’ and prime suspect ‘As’ who had planned his murder. The motive behind the crime was the woman’s wish to marry the suspect.

A police official said ‘A’ had been a prayer leader in the mosque for the last many years. Some three days back, he was present in his quarter at Multani Colony when two men came to meet him. As they left the house, his wife raised an alarm on finding him in a pool of blood, the official said adding later the hospital administration alerted the police. He breathed his last at the hospital.

During inquiry, the police declared that the throat of the prayer leader was slit open with a knife or dagger by the unknown men who visited him the same day.

The official said an investigation team found a CCTV footage and also got the cell phone calls record [of the area] and finally resolved the murder case.

He said the police first traced prime suspect ‘As’ who confessed to his crime and told the investigators that the prayer leader’s wife was his accomplice.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2021