KARACHI: A 25-year-old youth was murdered over some trivial issue in Gadap City on Friday, according to police.
Area SHO Notak Khan said the man, identified as Seema, was killed while his father Babu, 55, and brother Jeevan, 20, were injured during a scuffle off Motorway-9 near Kathor.
He said the fight was reported from the highway side where around 100-200 huts had been established mostly by the poor belonging to the Hindu community.
The scuffle broke out between neighbours over children’s fighting in which sticks and stones were used, he said, adding that Seema suffered injuries and died.
The police arrested four suspects from the crime scene.
Girl shot at, hurt in Bahria Town
A 16-year-old girl was shot at and wounded at an apartment in Bahria Town Karachi on Friday, police said.
Gadap City SHO Notak Khan said the girl, identified as Maheen Farhan, suffered a bullet wound on the thigh and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The police arrested a youth, Asheer Khan, and recovered a 9mm pistol from the scene. The held suspect told the police that his younger brother, Areeb Khan, aged around 18-19, shot the girl and fled.
The SHO said that initially, they were informed that the teenagers were playing ‘Tik-Tok’ when the gun went off and hit the girl. But later, it was learnt that the girl, a resident of the same area, and boy were friends and she visited him where reportedly a scuffle broke out between them over some issue and the boy fired at her.
The girl’s father lives in Dubai. The police have registered a case on the complaint of her maternal uncle.
Man shot dead in Pak Colony
A man was shot dead in Pak Colony on Friday, police said.
They added that Qadeer Mohammed, 35, had allegedly killed a man whose nephew, Jehangir Dad, killed him in revenge in Jehanabad near Mewashah graveyard and escaped.
The body was shifted to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi to fulfil medico-legal formalities.
Area SHO Fida Husain said that Qadeer said the deceased was booked in several FIRs pertaining to robberies and other crimes registered at the Pak Colony police station. He said he had links with some gangs operating in Lyari.
Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2021
