Another suspect remanded in quadruple homicide case

A judicial magistrate on Tuesday remanded another suspect in police custody in a case pertaining to the murders of four women in Lyari.

The investigating officer produced suspect Shehzad before the judicial magistrate (South) and requested his remand in police custody for interrogation. He stated that suspect Muhammad Bilal, who is already in police custody, revealed during interrogation that he committed the four murders at the instigation of his friend Shahzad and that the two were in contact before the incident.

The IO said Shahzad has been booked in the case for offence of abetment as punishable under Section 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). During questioning, the suspect also admitted to the crime, he added.

The magistrate handed over Shahzad to police on physical remand until October 31.

Earlier, the police arrested suspect Bilal after the bodies of his 60-year-old mother Shamshad Farooq, 21-old sister Madiha Farooq, 20-year-old sister-in-law Ayesha Sameer, and 12-year-old niece Alina Razzak were found with their throats slit in separate rooms of the flat near Bantwa Street within the jurisdiction of the Baghdadi police station on the night of October 18.

An FIR has been registered under the sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of Muhammad

Farooq, head of the family.