LAHORE: Multan police arrested a suspect involved in killing his underage worker by hitting him with his car in DHA on Monday.

CCTV footage of the incident, available with Dawn, showed that a minor boy after watching the car tried to run. The car was seen chasing the boy and hit him. The boy who fell rammed into a nearby door of a house and died on impact.

Rescue and police approached the scene and shifted the boy’s body to the morgue for autopsy. Later, DHA police registered a murder case on behalf of the state and arrested the suspect who was identified as Tauqeer Nazir. The deceased was identified as Waseem Abbas (15) of Muzaffargarh district who was working with Tauqeer, a contractor, as an electrician.

According to initial reports, the boy was unhappy with the contractor and left the work and ran away. The suspect first chased him on foot but failed to capture him. Later, he chased the boy in a car with his friend, Amjad Ali, and hit him. The boy died after suffering critical head injuries.

The Multan police spokesperson said the suspect would be produced before the court on Tuesday (today) and a challan would also be submitted in accordance with law.

DIES IN CUSTODY: A suspect arrested in a cheque dishonour case died in alleged custody of the Defence police station here on Monday.

The police claimed suspect Amjad Bashir (40) was nominated in the FIR for issuing a bogus cheque.

A police official denied the allegations of torturing the suspect saying that his health condition suddenly worsened and he was immediately rushed to a local hospital where he died. He said that he died due to a heart attack and no evidence of any violence was confirmed in a medical examination report.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2026