KHAIRPUR, Nov 25: A policeman killed his wife and a man on the pretext of karo-kari in Jail colony here on Monday.

Prison police constable Abdul Razzaq Jatoi opened fire at his wife Koonj in their house as a result she died on the spot. He also killed a man, Manthar Jatoi, in the same house. The accused used official gun in the double murder and escaped from the scene.

However, the A-section police arrested him from Faizabad colony and recovered the weapon used in the offence. Police took the bodies to the Khairpur Civil Hospital for post-mortem and, after it, handed them over to relatives.

Rab Dino Jatoi, the father of Manthar, told journalists at the Civil Hospital that his son was innocent.

FARES: Khairpur Regional Transport Authority secretary Abdul Qadeer Ansari at a meeting with transporters here on Tuesday directed them to charge transport fares from passengers as per new schedule fixed after a decrease in oil prices.