Hyderabad and Jamshoro police in a combined action recovered a decomposed body from a seminary in industrial area of Kotri late on Tuesday suspecting that the body was of a Hindu engineer who was allegedly killed after kidnapping by Islamic militants in August last year. Police sources said large contingent of Hyderabad and Jamshoro police raided Sachal Sarmast Colony in Kotri Site and arrested three suspects Khadim Hussain and his two sons Shahid and Tahir. Police claimed they also recovered a TT pistol, 8 TT pistols and some Jihadi publications. Later, the police party cordoned a Madrassa-e-Darul Huda located in the area and recovered a decayed body in excavation in its premises.
DIG Police Hyderabad region Syed Shaukat Shah who visited the site during the police action told reporters that they took the action after receiving information that activists of banned militant organization Harkatul Mujahideen had kidnapped and killed one Eng. Garesh Kumar, a resident of Kunri, some four and half a month ago from Hyderabad city and buried his body at a plot near the madrassa.
The DIG said they had arrested two persons including Khalid Minhas and his son Shahid and their two armed associates fled while shooting fires in the air. Police sources said Eng. Garesh Kumar was kidnapped from Liberty Market in the limits of HyderabadÂ’s Market police station on August 17, 2006 by 3 armed men donned in police uniform. The FIR of the incident was registered by Market police on Sep 14 against unidentified persons.
Sources said Hyderabad police informed KumarÂ’s father Saspal Das, a trader and taluka councilor in Kunri, a small town in district Mirpurkhas, about the recovery of the body on Wednesday morning triggering grief among the family members.