A policeman was arrested on Wednesday on suspicions that he
facilitated the murder of a school principal in Karachi's Parsi Colony
earlier this month.
The victim, Ambreen Fatima, had
allegedly been shot dead by her husband, Aliul Hasan, on December 10.
The murder had initially been framed as a case of a mugging gone awry.
Police had previously arrested
Hasan, his second wife Sahar Shams and his brother-in-law, Balaach. All
three had been remanded to police custody for interrogation till
December 28.
Police have now added policeman Bilal, who
is Sahar Shams' brother, to the list of people arrested in connection
with the murder.
The Station House Officer of Karachi's Soldier Bazaar area, where the murder took place, told Dawn that police had also recovered the weapon believed to have been used in the crime from Bilal.
A
raid was also conducted to nab yet another police officer, Danish, and
his father, Gul Nawaz, but the duo have absconded, the police official
said.
The pistol recovered, police say, originally
belonged to Nawaz, whose son lent it to fellow cop Bilal, who in turn
forwarded it to Sahar, who then gave it to her husband.
The
police believe Ambreen's murder was an outcome of her husband’s secret
marriage to Sahar. Sahar wanted to make the marriage public, prompting
the main accused to kill his first wife.
