Matricide case: Court wants charge sheet in three days

Karachi

A local court on Monday ordered interrogators to submit within three days a charge sheet against a man accused of killing his mother.

The accused, Ghulam Rabbani, a former deputy director of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), was arrested on February 18 after he allegedly killed his mother and injured his sister and brother-in-law in the Boat Basin police limits.

The alleged killer was produced before the Judicial Magistrate (South) for a custody request and has since been on physical remand time and again.

The murder took place in the flat of slain Naseem Akhtar, situated near the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine, where the accused had argued with his mother, apparently over a property dispute.

A police team attended the crime scene, took the man into custody and seized the knife, which was allegedly used in the murder.

The deceased and the injured – accused sister and brother-in-law- were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

According to preliminary investigations, the suspect reportedly had divorced his wife a day earlier the murder took place.

The very next day, when Rabbani returned home from office, he killed his mother after an altercation over a property dispute.  The suspect’s sister had reportedly fallen unconscious after seeing her mother dead.