ISLAMABAD: Mashal Khan’s prime murderer has been identified, however not yet arrested, as stated in a report presented by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police in the Supreme Court.
The cartridges collected from the site have been sent to Peshawar, the report added.
Nine of the 36 people that have been arrested in the case were employees of AWKUM.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar conducted the hearing on Thursday during which the KP police submitted the report.
The additional advocate general of KP told the court a Joint Investigation Team has been formed again, which now includes officials from Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence and Federal Investigation Agency.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar adjourned the case for the next 15 days.
A few days ago, AWKUM superintendent along with another employee of the university and a student were sent to prison on judicial remand. They were present before a judicial magistrate, where they denied the charges leveled on them. However, the court sent them to prison on judicial remand till May 4.
Mashal Khan, who was a student of journalism at AWKUM, was lynched and then brutally killed by an enraged mob on the university premises on April 13 over charges of “blasphemy”.
