MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 16: In a bid to subside mounting pressure from different quarters for early arrest of the person(s) involved in last month's attack on AJK High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal, the AJK police on Wednesday said that investigation into the incident was under way and the result would shortly be made public.

“Investigation into this sensitive case is being conducted by senior and experienced police officials on scientific and modern lines keeping all its aspects in view and the results would be unfolded very soon along with facts and evidence,” said a handout issued by the office of SSP Rashid Naeem Khan.

Justice Mughal, it may be recalled, was shot and wounded by unidentified person(s) on October 25 during his evening walk on the premises of AJK University's Chehla Bandi campus.

He had been under treatment at a hospital but later was shifted to a private residence in Islamabad.

Representatives of legal fraternity as well as people from all walks of life have been making demands through media for early arrest of the assailant(s).

The police, according to the insiders, are clueless about the incident as they have not found any witness to the high profile attack. Late last month, the police were reported to have arrested six suspects and shown their pictures to the CJ for identification. However, the handout did not make any mention of the identification process.

The handout stressed that the police were “relentlessly pursuing the probe in close cooperation with intelligence agencies” and that success was not too far.

A source told Dawn that police had constituted two special teams headed by additional SPs of Mirpur and Muzaffarabad to investigate the case and IGP Dr Tarek Ahmed Khokhar was personally supervising the process.

Official sources said that AJK Finance Minister Chaudhry Latif Akbar had also called on the CJ in Islamabad on the directions of Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed and briefed him on the progress made by the police regarding the investigation.