KARACHI, Nov 14: The decomposed and mutilated remains of a man kidnapped last month were recovered by police on Sunday on the disclosure of the suspects following their arrest by the Anti-Violent Crime Cell on Saturday. An official of the AVCC said that Haji Juma Khan, resident of Naushero Feroze, was employed in Saudi Arabia.

Last month, Haji Juma Khan told his family that he was leaving for Karachi to purchase a car and he took Rs1,800,000 for the purpose, police quoting the family sources said.On Oct 21, he arrived in Karachi and met his friend Anisa whom he knew for the past two or three years.

He told her that he had come to Karachi to buy a car, the police added.

He stayed at her home in Baghdadi. Later she took him to a house in Hijrat Colony where three suspects, Saifullah, Waqas and Amjad Ali, were present.

The three suspects overpowered him and tied him up with ropes and killed him and chopped off his body into pieces to dispose of it easily.

But they faced disappointment when they found that the victim was carrying only Rs60,000, the police said.

“When Juma Khan did not contact his family and his cellphone was not responding, then his family got suspicious and they finally lodged an FIR at the Sohrab Goth police station about his kidnapping on November 12.”

Subsequently, the case was transferred to the AVCC, SSP of the AVCC Farooq Awan told Dawn , adding that the four suspects were picked up by the AVCC on November 13 with the assistance of the cellphone call data.

It was during interrogation that the suspects disclosed that they had dumped the body parts into the Korangi River near Korangi Crossing.

Subsequently, police recovered the victim's remains from the river on Sunday, the police officer said.

The accused had killed Haji Juma Khan on October 21 and dumped his remains in the Korangi Nadi, the police added.

The police shifted the remains to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Accident

A young man was killed in a road accident on Jinnah Bridge on Sunday.

Police said that Mohammad Atif was on a motorcycle when his bike slipped over the bridge causing him serious injuries.

The young man was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he died during treatment. The victim was a resident of Keamari, police said.

Arrested Police on Sunday arrested a man accused of killing an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

They said that accused Mustafa 'Cabel wala', son of Shahdat Ali, was nominated in an FIR (No.633/2010) of the targeted killing case of Abdul Majeed, an MQM activist.

The FIR was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Al Falah police station.

Following the killing of the MQM activist, unidentified people had set fire to three vehicles in an Al-Falah area last week.

Police said that the accused was arrested by the Al-Falah police in Millat Town, however no weapon was recovered from his possession.

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