HYDERABAD, Oct 26: A local leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q Dr Shafiq Arain is reported to have surrendered to Hussainabad police in the double murder case of his wife and driver who were gunned down allegedly by him on Oct 20 in his home.

He had himself become complainant after remaining absent from the crime scene for some time and accused four unidentified people in the FIR lodged at Hussainabad police station, who he said had first kidnapped him and then abandoned him near Hyderabad central prison.

DPO Ghulam Nabi Memon and other police officers had failed to find any evidence other than clues to complainant’s own involvement in the case after grilling him.

Finally, he confessed to the DPO and other police officers to having murdered his wife and driver, he said he did it in a fit of rage after learning that they had developed illicit relations. He also handed over to police the weapon he had used in the crime.

Sources said that police did not formally put Arain under arrest because no separate FIR had been lodged in the case either by his wife’s family or heirs of the driver, Shakeel Junejo, so he finally surrendered on Saturday night.

Arain’s confessional statement under section 164 Cr.PC is to be recorded before a court.