- One more suspect arrested in Mardan lynching case
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police approached the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to put the name of Muhammad Arif, main accused in Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan’s lynching and tehsil councilor of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on the exit control list (ECL).
The police arrested Ali Khan, another on-the-run suspect, in relation to the killing of the university student. The number of the arrested in the case has reached 48 so far. Arif, the main suspect, is reportedly on the run and police is searching for him.
Additional Inspector General of Police Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed has sent the request to the FIA to put the main suspect’s name on the ECL. The document also has the passport and CNIC numbers of the absconders in the case. On May 2, as many as 10 suspects refused to accept charges laid against them in the mob lynching case.
According to reports, two staffers and eight students of the Abdul Wali Khan University were brought in court after completion of their remand. The defendants rejected the charges before the magistrate, however, the judge ordered to send the suspects back to jail on judicial remand till May 16.
On April 27, the police said that the person who shot Mashal Khan had been arrested. The person identified as Imran was a classmate of Mashal in the Journalism Department of the university. Shortly after the incident, PTI Chairman Imran Khan, whose party is in power in the province, had condemned the incident and called for action against those responsible for the murder.
Mashal a student at the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan was lynched by an angry mob on the premises of the University after being accused of blasphemy. –JUNAID YOUSAFZAI
