Surjani police on Wednesday registered a murder case against six suspects, including a member of a law enforcement agency, for allegedly killing a Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) worker and causing injuries to three others in cityon Tuesday.
A gun attack on JI’sTaiser Town office early on Tuesday morning had left one of its worker dead and three others injured, according to police and party sources.They said armed men riding motorcycles pulled up outside the party office in Sector 36-C where workers were busy arranging relief goods for distribution among the area’s residents in the backdrop of the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and opened fire on some workers. A senior officer said that a First Information Report (369/2020) was registered against three known and as many unidentified persons under Sections of 302, 324, 504, 147, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Mohammed Hanif, the brother of the deceased. The officer revealed that one of the six people booked is an LEA personnel. The three named suspects have not been arrested so far.
Officials said that the JI worker’s killing could be the result of a clash between the two sides that took place on Monday evening. On that day, they said, JI workers and activists of another group were busy distributing ration among people separately in the same area.
The activity took an ugly turn when a mob-like situation emerged and the two sides blamed each other for the mismanagement.
During the clash between the two groups, who were said to belong to the same neighbourhood, a person from the firing suspects’ side was injured.
Subsequently, on Tuesday morning, some armed men riding motorcycles pulled up outside the JI office. Two of them got off the two-wheeler and fired shots at a group of workers standing outside the office and sped away along with their aides.“As a result, 35-year-old Javed Ahmed died on the spot while three others — the elder brother of the deceased, 22-year-old Azeem and 18-year-old Adnan — sustained bullet wounds,” said the official.
