GUJRAT: Gujrat police claim to have arrested a suspect wanted in a murder case after he was repatriated by Dubai (United Arab Emirates) authorities, 30 years after committing the crime.
The suspect, Ansar, of Jataria village had been a nominated suspect in the murder case registered by Lalamusa Sadar police on February 6, 1992. The police said that the suspect had been at large since the incident and later fled the country.
Station House Officer Adnan Shahzad had been tasked with tracing and arresting the suspect through Interpol after which police launched the process to get the suspect repatriated from Dubai.
A spokesman for Gujrat police said the police got the red warrants of the suspect issued by Interpol after which he was repatriated by Dubai authorities back to Pakistan and now further legal proceedings were being initiated against him.
WOMAN KILLED: Yet another married woman was killed allegedly by her in-laws over a domestic dispute at Shadiwal village in Kunjah police precincts.
Police said Shazia Kausar of Hanj village near Kharian had been married to Umair Warraich of Shadiwal around a year ago. However, she developed differences with her in-laws, who would often quarrel with her, the police added.
On Saturday, the police said, Shazia was allegedly subjected to torture by some of the female members of her husband’s family and later a brother of her husband shot her, leaving the woman critically injured.
The injured woman died while being shifted to the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital. The body was later handed over to the family of the deceased woman after an autopsy.
A team comprising officials of police and the Punjab Forensic Science Agency visited the crime scene and collected evidence.
Police have registered a case against five nominated suspects, including a man and four women under sections 302, 148 and 149 of the PPC on the report of Muhammad Arshad, a brother of the victim.
At least 12 women have so far been murdered in Gujrat district in around four and a half months of the current year, while three of them were killed in two incidents in a single day earlier this week. Convictions are rare in women’s murder cases in Pakistan.
THEFT: A man was allegedly deprived of local and foreign currency and gold ornaments worth Rs6 million by his employee at Ranjha Jhamat village in Jalalpur Jattan Saddar police precincts.
Shujaat Hussain Warraich lodged a complaint with the police alleging that in his absence from his house, his employee Babar took away cash and valuables from a locker.
He said upon his return to the house, he found that the suspect had taken away Rs650,000 and 10,200 pounds, nine tolas of gold jewellery and a set of diamond jewellery, having a total worth of Rs6 million.
Police have registered a case against the suspect and started investigation.
Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2023
