HARIPUR, April 20: Police have failed to arrest the three principal accused involved in a triple murder, which was occurred in the court premises the other day.

However, the police claimed to have arrested four of their accomplices.

Iqbal, Jamshed, Abid sons of Nawab Khan of village Khidoo; along with some other relatives; shot dead Mustafa, Wahab and Khaliqdad in the veranda of the court of additional district and sessions judge, when the victims were about to attend hearing in a murder case.

The accused, according to the eyewitnesses, managed to flee the scene unhindered by the policemen deployed in the court premises.

The assailants, who were close relatives of the victims, are said to have taken revenge of the murder of their father and a young brother who had been killed and set to fire by the victim’s party.

The accused involved in another case of triple murder of Mohalla Pattan Haripur were also still at large, as the police failed to make any headway in this connection.

In this case for which Haripur District Nazim Dr Raja Amir Zaman had directed the police to apprehend the culprits within two weeks, the bandits had attempted to rob the family of its valuables; shot dead a woman her two young sons, injuring two others, when they tried to put up resistance, in the first week of January.