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Man shot dead over `free-will marriage` in Ibrahim Hyderi

By Our Staff Reporter 2023-05-13
KARACHI: A man was shot dead by unknown assailants in Ibrahim Hyderi`s M.M.

Colony on Friday, police said.

They said that the victim, 27-year-old Ali Gohar, had married a woman on their free will recently. It was her fourth marriage and she also had children from her three earlier husbands.

The police suspected involvement of woman`s relatives in the incident, saying they were not happy with the marriage.

The victim`s body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre formedico-legal formalities.

Stabbed to death A young man was found murdered in the Sachal area on Friday, police said.

They said that the body of a man was recovered from an under-construction house in Ghazi Goth.

He was stabbed to death.

The victim was identified as Shakeel Husain, 27.

The police attributed some personal enmity behind the killing.

Suspect who looted Turkish engineer held Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a suspected robber for his alleged involvement in snatching Rs800,000 from a Turkish citizen last month.

On April 18, two men wearing police uniform and travelling in a car snatched the money from the Turkish citizen in the Saddar area.

SSP-South Syed Asad Raza identified the held suspect as Shahid. He said he originally hailed from Gilgit.

During initial probe, the suspect revealed that he had also committed other robberies while wearing police or Rangers uniform, he added.

He said that the police had recovered $480 and over Rs200,000 from his custody.

The SSP revealed that the held suspect had also committed such robberies in Lahore as well by wearing uniforms of law enforcers.