SUKKUR, Aug 3: Nine Rangers personnel belonging to 61 Qasim Rangers were booked by the Ghotki police on Sunday, following the murder of a young man in Qadria Muhalla late on Friday.

On a complaint lodged by Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh, the elder brother of the deceased, Ghotki police have registered an FIR against the Rangers personnel, including Hawaldar Siddiq, Naik Rasheed, Lance Naik Akram, constables Ibn-i-Abbas, Irfan Younis, Abdul Aziz and Raheem Shah. However no arrest was made.

In his statement before police, the father of the deceased, Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh, said that on Friday night his son Bashir Ahmed Shaikh was sitting outside the house when three Rangers personnel in plain clothes entered into Qadria Muhalla and snatched cellphone and Rs1,000 at gunpoint from his son and when he shouted for help the Rangers personnel called in their other fellows, who arrived in an official vehicle (No.8140) and opened fire, injuring Bashir. The Rangers personnel escaped, he claimed. The injured was shifted to the civil hospital in Sukkur where he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday.