KARACHI, Nov 11: The Ferozabad police on Thursday registered an FIR pertaining to the death of 21-year-old Karachi University student, Faraz Ahmed, whose body with torture marks was found in a vacant plot in PECHS on Wednesday morning.

The FIR was lodged against unidentified persons after the police recorded the statement of Mr Baseer Naveed, Faraz's father, on Thursday evening.

Ferozabad ASP Shahzad Waheed told Dawn that once the case was transferred to the investigation wing of the police, they might request for exhumation of the body to determine the cause of death, which was one of the prerequisites to carry out investigations into the case.

The autopsy examination of Faraz's body could not be carried out on Wednesday due to the alleged lethargic attitude of the medico-legal officer at the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre.

According to Mr Baseer Naveed, he waited for well over three hours for the medico-legal officer to carry out the autopsy examination of his son's body. Finally, when he could not further bear the inordinate delay, as the body was decomposing, Mr Naveed got the body shifted for final bath to the Edhi morgue at Shorab Goth.

WOUNDED: A policeman was injured when unknown suspects shot him at point blank range in F.B Area on Wednesday night.

DSP Azizabad Aijaz Hashmi told Dawn that PC Mudassir Husain, 24, had assumed his duty at 8pm outside Al Mustafa Mosque in Block-14, F.B Area. Soon after some men in plain clothes came to him and started talking. After a while, they all went to a narrow street where the suspects shot at him in abdomen.

The DSP said that the weapon of Mudassir had a bullet in its chamber, which indicated that he was also about to open fire.

Officials of the Masjid Committee shifted the police constable to a nearby private hospital from where he was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

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