Karachi
Abdul Raheem, a suspected extortionist and target killer arrested a day earlier, was remanded to police for 14 days by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday.
Officials had asked the cout for his physical remand to initiate interrogation. The suspect, who had been identified through CCTV footage for killing a factory supervisor in Godhra Colony.
Police say the suspect was involved in the December 2014 killing of Dr Arif Mustafa Siddiqi, a senior medical officer at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Along with two absconding accomplices, he had killed at least four people, including a police constable in North Karachi to evade snap checking.
The suspect who, according to his mother was an activist of a religious party, had been delegated the task of collecting ‘protection money’ from industries and professionals in New Karachi and Buffer Zone.