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Man ‘seeking ransom after killing friend’ arrested
[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Police on Wednesday recovered the body of a 25-year-old man from a water tank in the house of the suspected killer who allegedly kidnapped and murdered his own friend two days ago.The police locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! the suspected killer identified as Naeem Rajput, who admitted his crime. Ahsan, son of Dr Jamil Kazi, had gone missing on Dec 16 from outside his house in Rehman Town within the jurisdiction of the Pinyari cop shoppe. His family reported the matter to the Pinyari police which allegedly didn’t give a positive response to the family initially. Later Ahsan’s father, Dr Kazi, currently posted in Larkana district health department, requested the Larkana commissioner to intervene upon which the police started work on the case. The family received a call for payment of Rs300,000 ransom. The caller wanted the delivery of the payment at Hyderabad’s railway station. Hyderabad senior superintendent of police Sarfaraz Nawaz Sheikh told journalists at a briefing that Rs300,000 was arranged of which Rs150,000 was paid by the police to the family. The family delivered the amount at the decided location, from where the suspect secretly collected the money. "But the hostage was not handed over to the family. The caller told them to reach Makki Shah to find Ahsan. The family rushed to the area but didn’t find Ahsan despite ransom payment," the SSP said. The SSP said that the accused had used the mobile phone of the dear departed to contact his family. The SSP said Naeem and Ahsan had 15-year-old friendship. Naeem told police that he needed Rs300,000 to buy new mobile phones and some other things, the SSP added. "Naeem took Ahsan to his home on his cycle of violence  where he gave him some papers to read. Naeem tried to hold Ahsan and after a scuffle hit him with a stick on his head repeatedly," SSP said.SSP said that when Ahsan departed this vale of tears Naeem threw his body in an under-construction water tank of his house as his own family was away. Posted by: Fred 2018-12-21 |
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