KARACHI: A young man has died after taking ‘ecstasy tablets’, which may have contained dangerous chemicals, a police official confirmed on Saturday.
According to SSP South Zubair Nazir Shaikh, Shahrukh is the key suspect in a case pertaining to the death of youth after drug overdose at a dance party in the port city’s posh locality of Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
The suspect had sold three ‘ecstasy tablets’ for Rs1500 each to deceased Mobeen. “Mobeen was rushed to a nearby hospital after his health deteriorated suddenly at the dance party,” SSP said.
A post-mortem examination report of the deceased confirmed he died of drug overdose. Mobeen’s friends relayed he bought the tablets from Shahrukh, the SSP revealed, adding the suspect’s brothers Shah Asad and Shah Fahad too are criminals.
In January 2021, a police party had raided Shah Asad’s drug den, Shaikh said, adding he had hit and killed a police constable with his car while fleeing the scene.
