Credible sources in the police department disclosed that the deceased Maher Ali Shah had gone missing a month ago, after he was last was seen outside a bank. His relatives made resolute efforts to search for him, but all in vain.
Later, they lodged an FIR under section 365 (kidnapping or abduction with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person) at a local police station. People of the area gathered at the site as police rescue teams recover the body.
The deceased Maher Ali Shah (shown in file. photo above) was an employee of the education department, hailing from Sonda area of Thatta district, and reportedly went to withdraw cash from his bank account sometime about a month ago. Since then, he had not returned home.
After registration of the first information report (FIR), police launched a multi-spatial probe into the case, and made a breakthrough with the help of its technical team.
Police apprehended two suspects identified as Ghulam Nabi Chang and Nazar Ali Chang, who confessed to have killed Shah and dumped his body into a well near a coal-mine in Jhimpir area. Both suspects said they did this after snatching an amount of 50 thousand rupees from the deceased.
Police said that the corpse had been partially decomposed and had a foul smell. The body, after being draped in a shroud, was moved to Civil Hospital Makli at Thatta for autopsy, where a high profile team was assigned the task.
Quoting the accused, police said that they had killed the deceased by "repeatedly smashing rocks on his head".
Police further added that they had obtained statements of the accused and would trace out all leads developed during investigation, as some aspects of the case were still being scrutinised.