Blind murder case solved

MANSEHRA: The police claimed to have arrested an accused who killed a man who allegedly blackmailed him and his brother to force them into sodomy.

“This was a blind murder but we carried out an investigation that led to the arrest of an accused who confessed to his crime,” Superintendent of Police, Central, Bilal Ahmad told a press conference.

Flanked by SHOs and investigation officers of Khaki and Saddar police stations, he said the body of one Mohammad Shahbaz in his early 20s was found at the Muradpur area in the limits of Khaki Police Station. Bilal Ahmad said an investigation team was constituted that arrested Muhammad Waqar.

The SP said according to the accused’s confessional statement, the slain had made his and his brother’s explicit videos and used to blackmail them for sodomy for the last almost a year and a half. He said Saddar police also arrested an accused Mohammad Nasir, who killed Mohammad Riaz, 55, and dumped his body at a deserted place.