SUKKUR: The uncle of one of the suspects in Shahzeb Khan’s murder has rejected allegations against his nephew.
At a press conference held in Sukkur, Subedar Khan Jatoi, the brother
of Sikander Ali Jatoi whose son Shahrukh Jatoi is a prime suspect in
the case, claimed the allegations against his nephew were false. He
maintained Shahrukh did not know either Shahzeb or Nawab Siraj Talpur,
the second suspect in the murder.
Elaborating his version of the incident, Subedar Jatoi claimed that
on December 24 – the day Shahzeb was murdered – his nephew Shahrukh had
been driving back home from a McDonald’s outlet in Karachi’s Seaview
locality when he was held up near the Country Club by a quarrel between
some people. He said Shahrukh, who according to him had been studying in
Australia and was spending a 10-day vacation in Karachi, was attacked
by the quarrelers initially but was allowed to leave later.
According to Jatoi, while Shahrukh returned home subsequently,
sometime later some other men killed Shahzeb near the locality. He
asserted that his nephew and Talpur were nominated in the FIR for ‘no
apparent reason’.
Jatoi claimed Shahzeb’s father DSP Aurangzeb was related to Pakistan
Peoples Party leader Nabil Gabol. He maintained Shahrukh was implicated
in the case on Gabol’s insistence, adding that the latter wished to
malign Shahrukh’s father Sikander Jatoi politically. Lashing out at DSP
Aurangzeb, he demanded the case be investigated by someone ‘considerably
honest’.
He asked the government and judiciary to conduct an inquiry into the
matter so that both the victim and the innocent party receive justice.
Suspects capture in Dadu
The Express Tribune has learnt that both Shahrukh and Talpur managed to break through a police cordon and evade capture in Dadu on Saturday.
According to police sources, the police team sent from Karachi to
investigate Shahzeb’s murder raided a house in Dadu following a tipoff
regarding the suspects’ whereabouts. Despite being surrounded, Shahrukh
and Talpur managed to evade capture and fled the area.
Police officials claimed that the suspects had been on alert after the media broke the news.
Meanwhile, Inspector Aslam Khakrani, the officer heading the
investigation, has said that the police team is currently chasing the
suspects in interior of Sindh and was very close to apprehending them.
Beyond this, however, the officer refused to share any details regarding
the investigation with the media until Shahrukh and Talpur were
arrested.
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(WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN KARACHI)
Published in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2012.
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