KARACHI, Feb 27: A young employee of a prominent rummy club was found shot dead early Monday morning on Nishtar Road within the remit of the Garden police station, officials said.

They added that the trussed-up body of 25-year-old Shafnan Akram was spotted in Almari Street.

The police said that Mr Akram worked at a rummy club at Ghas Mandi. They suspected that he was kidnapped on his way back home late Sunday night.

The victim was killed somewhere else and his body was dumped in the street, said police investigators, adding that no spent bullet casing was found at the spot.

For medico-legal formalities, the body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where doctors said the victim sustained three gunshot wounds. Besides, some contusion marks were also visible on the body, they added.

Imran Akram, the victim’s brother, later told the police that Mr Akram had no enmity with anyone. On his brother’s complaint, an FIR (34/2012) was registered against unidentified men at the Garden police station.

Man held for killing uncle

A man was booked and arrested for killing his uncle over a property dispute in the old city area, police said.

Zafar Iqbal fired at his uncle Ashfaq Rasheed, 48, over a property dispute at Gari Khata near Iqbal Market, said an official at the Nabi Bux police station.

While Mr Rasheed died on the spot, shopkeepers caught his fleeing nephew and handed him over to police after giving him a hiding.

Police seized a TT pistol found in his possession, said SHO Naseeruddin Shah.

“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the killing,” the SHO said.

The officer said the victim was a resident of Rabia Flowers, situated on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road, and father of four children.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to his heirs.

An FIR (36/2012) was registered against Zafar Iqbal under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on a complaint of Mohib Ashfaq, a victim’s brother.

Robbers kill man

An elderly man was killed on resistance during a bus robbery near the Essa Nagri stop within the remit of the Aziz Bhatti police station.

Police said Usmanul Haq, an elderly resident of F.B Area, was going home from work in a bus of route X-23 when three armed suspects boarded it and started looting passengers at gunpoint. But they faced resistance as they approached Mr Haq.

Subsequently, one of the bandits fired at him and fled along with his accomplices, the police added.

The police shifted the victim’s body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Jobless man shot dead

A jobless man, who had gone missing on Sunday, was found shot dead in Gulshan-i-Buner on Monday, police said.

The victim, Mohammad Idrees, had told his family before leaving home that he was going to meet a friend but he did not contact anyone afterwards, said a duty officer at the Sukhan police station.

The body bearing gunshot wounds was spotted near Murghi Khana stop in Gulshan-i-Buner, SI Mohammad Ayaz told Dawn. He added that the body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

He said the victim was father of a child and had divorced his wife two years back.

Suspecting personal enmity as a probable motive behind the killing, the police picked up a friend of the deceased for interrogation.

Police quoted the family sources as saying that the deceased was unemployed and addicted to drugs.