Counter Terrorism Department of Sindh Police in a raid here arrested three persons including brother in law of Sindh Bar Council’s slain official Irfan Mahar on Saturday.
A team of CTD officials conducted raid in tehsil Garhi Yaseen of Shikarpur district and arrested three persons including a relative of Irfan Mahar, who was killed in a gun attack in Karachi on December 1st.
Arrested suspects have been shifted to an unspecified place and being questioned about the high profile murder, according to police sources. Sindh Police had registered case of Irfan Mahar’s murder, who was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Jauhar area.
On December 3, the victim’s brother registered an FIR under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 and sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Sharae Faisal police station.
The FIR stated that Mahar was attacked in the morning when he was returning home after dropping his children at school. Initial investigations reports revealed that the men didn’t try to rob the victim. They directly shot him. Irfan Mahar was the secretary of the Sindh Bar Council.—INP
