GUJRAT: Police claim to have traced eight suspects belonging to a student group involved in the murder of a second-year student and injuries to another in the firing incident near Rehmania Bridge. “At least five of the suspects have been arrested by the police whereas three main suspects, who were actually involved in resorting to the firing at the college bus, are yet to be arrested,” said an official of the local police while talking to Dawn on Tuesday. A spokesman for Gujrat Police said the student, Laraib Doga, a resident of Jaura Karnana village, was killed and another Zainul Abedin Butt of Dinga was wounded in the attack on their college bus on Oct 24. A case was lodged against unidentified suspects with the Rehmania Police Station.
Police had identified at least eight suspects involved in the incident and at least five suspects, namely Waleed Anwar, a resident of Kalara Khasa, Hafiz Abdul Rehman and Mataal Minhaas, residents of Lalamusa, Ameer Hamza of Mehsam and Raja Adeel of Bhota, had been arrested whereas police had also recovered clubs and iron rods used in the incident by these suspects. However, three suspects, namely Khizer Cheema of Makka Colony, Saim Shah of Hassam Rasulpur and Talha Farooq of Jaura, are still at large. All the five arrested suspects have already been sent to the Gujrat District Jail on judicial remand.
(Daily Dawn)
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