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  • Witnesses identify second suspect in Karachi Do Darya firing case

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    A second suspect linked to the murder of Karachi college student Zafir Ahmed Zuberi near the city's Do Darya area earlier this month was identified by three witnesses in court on Thursday.

    The witnesses, who appeared in the court of a judicial magistrate today, were able to identify two suspects out of the five people in the identification parade Khawar Burney, the main accused, and Abdul Rehman, one of the 10 absconding suspects in the case.

    Once of the witnesses who identified Rehman told the court that he is a friend of Dr Abdul Raheem, the motorcyclist who was hit by the victim's car.

    The eyewitnesses also placed Rehman at the site of the shooting and said that he had broken the windows of the victim's car.

    The remaining three in the identification parade, Hasan Hussain Burney, Haider Hussain Burney and Raza Hussain Burney were not identified by the witnesses.

    The Investigation Officer (IO) has, however, named the three as co-accused in the case, along with Hasnain Hussain Burney, Haris Hussain Burney, Danish, Hammad, Noman, Umar Pirwani; and a woman, Mehak. The others all currently absconding.

    The IO told the court that some of the ammunition used in the shooting belonged to Rehman.

    Zafir and his friend Zaid were on their way to have breakfast at the beach on Dec 3 when they had a minor accident with Dr Abdul Raheem's motorbike.

    After the accident, suspects travelling in a double-cabin vehicle had chased them and opened indiscriminate fire on the youths' Mercedes in what seemed to be an act of vengeance around 9am on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue, police said.

    As a result, the two passengers sustained bullet wounds and were transported to a private hospital where doctors pronounced Zafir, 18, dead, and Zaid received treatment for a bullet wound.

    A case was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the deceased’s father, Fahim Ahmed Zuberi, at the Sahil Police Station.

    The IO requested judicial magistrate, who had on Dec 12 remanded Khawar Burney to police custody in jail, to extend his physical remand. The judicial magistrate, however, rejected the IO's request.

    Subsequently, the IO approached the sessions judge south requesting physical remand of Khawar Burney. He told the judge that police had not completed their investigation regarding the prime suspect, and said that the police would be able to arrest the absconding suspects with his help.

    The sessions judge then ordered Khawar Burney be sent on physical remand for two more days.