Sukkur police raid house of journalist’s killers in katcha area
SUKKUR: The police on Sunday conducted raid in katcha area of Shah Belo for arrest of the
culprits involved in murder of journalist Jan Muhammad Mahar.
According Sukkur SSP Irfan Sammu, who led the police team, the police raided house of main
accused Sheral Mahar in Shah Belo. “However, after exchange of fire with police, accused fled
to thick riverine forest,” SSP Sammu added.
The policemen set the homes and bunkers of the accused on fire and chasing behind culprits.
“It is first time the police reached to the homes of the accused after drop in water level in the
river”, SSP Sammu said.
Police had earlier conducted raids over houses of the accused in katcha area in which a son of the
main accused and an accomplice were injured in exchange of fire.
Police reached to the houses of culprits after over three months of the murder.
Police department has so far arrested nine persons over facilitation and providing shelter to
killers of Jan Muhammad Mahar.
Mahar, a senior journalist and Sukkur bureau chief of a local television network had been
murdered by assailants on August 13.
The attackers on a motorcycle opened fire at Mahar inside his vehicle after he left his office in
Sukkur at 9:00 am on August 13.
Earlier, SSP Sukkur told the media that three suspects wanted in the murder case were arrested in
an operation in the katcha area.
The arrested persons were identified as Sher Muhammad Shaikh, Muhammad Ramzan Shaikh
and Bashir Memon. The police officer said that the suspects were handed over to the Counter-
Terrorism Department (CTD).
Source: Pakistan Today
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