The Rawalpindi police have claimed to have resolved the blind murder case of an Express News staffer, who was shot during a robbery on January 9, while on his way home.
During a press conference on Saturday, the police presented Haroon Ahmed’s suspected killers before the media, stating that they had confessed to killing him when he put up resistance in a robbery incident, a short distance away from his house.
“They killed Haroon just for a mobile phone, which they made away with leaving him in a pool of blood. The next day they sold the mobile for Rs400,” Rawal Town SP Malik Karamat told media persons at a press conference.
Flanked by City DSP Raja Taifoor and New Town SHO Ijaz Shah, SP Karamat said that accused Farhan alias Fani and Usman Karim were professional criminals and the police had recovered the murder weapon, a 30-bore pistol, Haroon’s mobile phone and a motorbike, which was used for the crime.
Sharing details of the incident and arrests, the SP said the day after the robbery, Farhan sold the mobile phone to Ghazanfar Abbas, who works at a milk shop in Dhoke Kashmirian. Farhan was his colleague till a few months ago.
SP Karamat said after Abbas purchased the mobile, he left for his hometown, Wazirabad. “On January 10, when we investigated the location of the mobile, it was in Wazirabad.”
Our team went there and managed to arrest Abbas, who told the police that he purchased the mobile from Farhan, the SP said and added that investigators managed to arrest the robbers through Abbas.
“I’m satisfied with the performance of the police, we have identified Haroon’s recovered mobile,” said, Mukhtar Ahmed, Haroon’s father.
AIOU graduate, Haroon joined Express News as a non-linear editor, two and a half years back, to help share the family’s expenses with his father. “We miss our brother, his smiling face, the way he chatted with us. How can we forget him?” said Farhan, Haroon’s younger brother.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2014.