LAHORE, Sept 2: Police claimed on Thursday to have solved the mystery of alleged kidnap and murder of a serving captain. SSP (investigation) Chaudhry Shafqaat told Dawn that a couple had been arrested besides recovery of the body.
Capt Aun had reported to the Lytton Road police on Tuesday that he and Capt Jawad reached the city and the latter went missing from Qartaba Chowk. The police chief said the record retrieved from the cell phone of the captain showed that he had made the last call at a number in Kharian. The number was of a woman, Atya, the SSP said.
Police arrested Atya and her husband, Habibur Rehman, who had been living in the US. The woman confessed during interrogation to having relations with the captain. She admitted that she used to meet him in the absence of her husband.
Two days ago, the woman said, she received a call from Capt Jawad who insisted on a meeting even she informed him that her husband was in Pakistan. She received her lover at her house, the SSP said, adding that her husband caught them red-handed. The man shot at and wounded Capt Jawad.
Later, he stabbed and killed him and threw the body in a canal with the help of his wife. A case has been registered against the couple. Further investigation is under way.
ROBBERIES: Robbers and thieves on Thursday made at least 10 successful strikes in various parts of the city. Eight armed men barged into the house of Azhar in Mustafaabad and held inmates hostage. The intruders tied up the family members and remained in the house for five hours. They scooped cash, ornaments and valuables worth Rs600,000 and escaped.
Naeem Ahmad drew Rs315,000 from a bank and was on way to his office when three armed men held him up in Block Z of Defence Housing Society and took away the amount. Three other miscreants intercepted Nadeem Ahmad in Liaquatabad and drove away with his motorcycle besides snatching his wallet and a cell phone.
Ms Aaisha and Ms Nabila claimed that they were held hostage by two gunmen who deprived them of cash and jewellery worth Rs70,000 in Tibbi area.
Two robbers snatched Rs35,000 in cash and a cell phone from Usman Ahmad in Nizam Block of Allama Iqbal Town while Nauman Ali was held up in Township by two gangsters and deprived him of his wallet and a cell phone. A car and three motorcycles were either snatched or stolen from different parts of the city.