Peshawar: (May 4, 2017) Police has detained another suspect in Mardan University student Mashal khan murder case that raised the figure of arrested suspects to 48, while Arif Khan, main suspect, name is put on exit control list (ECL).
Police had requested to interior ministry to put PTI councilor Arif Khan, the nominated accused in Mashal lynch case, name in ECL, later his name was put on ECL. Police has deployed various operational teams to arrest Arif Khan, who was at large after the tragic incident.
Police arrested another accused Ali Khan, who was also at large, and now 48 out of 49 accused have been in police custody so far in this connection.
The number of the arrested in the case has reached 48 so far. The main suspect Arif is reportedly on the run and police is searching for him.
Additional Inspector General Police Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed has sent the request to the FIA to put the main suspect Arif’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 ten suspects refused to accept charges laid against them in the mob lynching case.
According to reports, two staffers and eight students of 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, police said the person who shot Mashal Khan had been arrested. The person identified as Imran was a classmate of Mashal in the journalism department.
Shortly after the incident, PTI chairman Imran Khan, whose party is in power in KP, had condemned the incident and called for action against those responsible for the murder.
Mashal Khan 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.
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