Man murdered ‘at the behest of wife, son’ in Gujrat

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Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File
Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File

GUJRAT: A man was allegedly shot dead by four unidentified suspects, in alleged connivance with his son and wife, at Kulachor village in Jalalpur Jattan Saddar police precincts.

Complainant Aftab Warraich, alleged in his complaint lodged with the police that his brother Fiaz, who had returned from Iran last week, was gunned down by four unidentified suspects.

He alleged that his brother’s son Ali Hasan and wife Kausar Bibi had a domestic dispute with the victim and they plotted the murder.

He also alleged that the mother and the son were present at the scene when the victim was killed, and they fled away, along with the killers, on motorcycles.

On being called, police and Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) teams reached the spot and collected evidence from the crime scene.

The body was shifted to the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH), where doctors conducted autopsy and handed it over to the victim’s relatives.

Police claimed to have arrested Hasan and Kausar and registered a case against the four unidentified attackers and the two nominated suspects, under sections 302, 109, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

YOUTH RAPED: A village barber allegedly raped a male student of the University of Gujrat (UoG) at Chak Bhula in Gujrat Saddar police precincts.

As per the police, a UoG student, ‘W’, alleged in his complaint that his friend ‘Y’, who runs a barber shop at the village, called him to the shop where he raped him at gunpoint.

He also alleged that he filmed the episode with his phone camera and started blackmailing him. He said that the suspect had so far extorted at least Rs0.5 million from him through blackmail.

The police have registered a case against the suspect under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2026

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