SARGODHA, May 18: Gunjial police on Tuesday failed to arrest the remaining 25 assailants whose names were not mentioned in the FIR. The police still refused to accept that the seven missing members of the slain family were kidnapped by the accused Utra family.

The police presumed that the missing people of Muslim Shaikh tribe might have taken refuge somewhere else. They were too frightened to return, they opined. The situation in Utra village is still tense as the 25 accused are still absconding.

The Muslim Shaikh tribe also apprehends that the landlord of the Utra family will force them for compromise. Meanwhile, the police avoided to disclose any further development in the case to newsmen, as according to them, that might create hurdles in the way of investigation.

On Monday, the police were even denying the burning of any house of the deceased family, but now they admitted that the accused party had set ablaze several rooms. However, they avoided to give out the exact figure of the burnt houses. It may be mentioned that most families of labourers in Utra village live in one room which is considered their complete residential unit.