Man accused of killing father sent on four-day police remand

A judicial magistrate on Monday granted a four-day police remand of a suspect arrested in connection with the murder of his father over a property dispute.

Muhammad Salman, along with his brother Muhammad Imran, has been booked for strangling their father, Muhammad Saleem Ansari, a retired police constable, to death and burning his body at his residence in the Soldier Bazaar area on March 23.

On Monday, the investigating officer produced the detained suspect before the judicial magistrate (East) and requested his 14-day physical remand in police custody for interrogation.

He stated that the two brothers strangled their father to death due to a property dispute and then doused his body with petrol and set it ablaze. He said the body was burnt in an attempt to paint the crime as an accident.

The IO said the suspect was required to be interrogated about his absconding brother, for which his custody was required.

The magistrate, however, handed over the suspect to the police on a four-day remand with a direction to produce him on the expiry of the same.

An FIR has been registered under the sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).