GUJRAT: Police arrested the suspect involved in murder of his younger brother over a row on electricity bill in Garjakh police area of Gujranwala.

Gujranwala police said Ghulam Murtaza had been detained after he murdered his younger brother Umar Farooq at the door of their house after an altercation over the issue of Rs30,354 bill of electricity.

The suspect will be produced in a local court for physical remand.

Police had booked the suspect under Section 302 of PPC on the report of Mahnoor, the widow of the deceased, on July 23.

Family sources said the deceased was tailor by profession and was survived by a 22-year-old widow and two daughters.

The elder daughter is just 2.5 years old. Ghulam Murtaza, Umar and their third brother were sharing a small house.

Initial investigation showed that the deceased had handed over the amount of his share in the bill to his elder brother last month but the suspect did not even pay last month’s bill.

The fresh bill had mounted up to Rs 30,000 that became a cause of harsh words between the brothers, resulting in the murder of Umar.

MURDER: A married woman was shot dead allegedly by her brother over some domestic dispute in Tahliwala locality of Gujranwala Saddar police.

Reports said Farzana Bibi along with her husband and parents was going to the village Tahliwala to meet a sibling, Parvez.

They were intercepted by Farzana’s brother, Kafayatullah, who was accompanied by his three unidentified suspects.

Kafayat opened fire at Farzana in the presence of other family members, leaving her critically injured. She was shifted to the Gujranwala Teaching Hospital by Rescue 1122 where she succumbed to the injuries.

Police registered the case against the suspects on the report of Munawar Hussain, the father of the deceased as well as the suspect.

OFFLOADED: A Poland-bound passenger was offloaded by the immigration authorities at Sialkot airport due to fake travel documents on Thursday.

FIA officials claimed Rizwan Ali was traveling on a fake visa that was arranged by his brother, Ali Zeeshan, who paid a sum of Rs3.3 million to a Polish agent to arrange an employment for him.

Rizwan was handed over to Gujranwala FIA’s anti-human trafficking circle for investigation. Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2024