KARACHI: The district police today (Saturday) have arrested three suspects over charges of killing the director of a private academic institute on main Stadium Road a day earlier.
SP Gulshan-e-Iqbal Maroof Usman said that the East Zone of the police apprehended the suspects within hours of the incident. “Police arrested three suspects after receiving a tip-off,” he said, adding that one of the suspects was the facilitator for the two who had attempted to rob the victim.
“The suspects were drug addicts who resorted to firing during an attempted robbery,” he said, adding that the facilitator, identified as Zakir, used to give pistols to the suspects on “rent”.
The official further said that the suspects have confessed to their role in 22 snatching incidents. “Even before and after killing the professor, the two suspects snatched valuables from three more people including a woman,” he added.
He added that Zakir had a criminal history and had been arrested and sent to prison in the past. The suspects recorded their statement before the investigators, stating that they opened fire on the car after the victim did not stop.
A day earlier, a private engineering college’s educator was gunned down by unidentified assailants on a motorcycle near Khatoon-e-Pakistan Government Degree College for Women in Karachi yesterday.
The educator from a private engineering college affiliated with NED Engineering University was murdered by unidentified gunmen when he was returning to his home in his vehicle.
