NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 18: A cattle trader was killed by his in-laws in their house in Moro on June 13, according to his brother.

Pyaro told journalists that his brother Haji Waryam Bughio carrying Rs100,000 in a rickshaw left Bandhi to purchase buffaloes from a market. On his way, he went to his in-laws’ house in Ward-2 of Moro.

Pyaro said that when Waryam did not return till next morning they started looking for him but could not find him. Later the Moro police raided the house of rickshaw driver Sultan in Dost Mohammad Jiskani village near Shahpur Jehanian. Sultan tried to escape but the police arrested him and recovered a mobile phone of the deceased from his possession.

According to Pyaro, the rickshaw driver told the police that he and Waryam went to his in-laws’ house where his brother-in-law Imam Bux, mother-in-law Maryam and others became greedy. They tied the hands of Waryam with a rope, Maryam brought a pistol and fired point blank on the throat of Waryam.

The driver said that after killing Waryam, Imam Bux with him and Mohammad Sharif took away the body in the rickshaw and threw it in the fields near National Highway, some 16 kilometres away from Moro.

The police found the body next day and buried it through Edhi volunteers in Pir Nangraj graveyard near Moro toll plaza.

The brother of deceased identified the body after it was exhumed.—Correspondent