1/18/2022- 1:59 p.m.
A policeman committed suicide by shooting himself to avoid arrest after law enforcers identified him as the main suspect in the recent killing of a man during a robbery at Karachi’s Kashmir Road, police said on Tuesday.
A 28-year-old recently married man, identified as Shahrukh, was shot dead by a lone robber upon resistance on Kashmir Road on Jan 12.
In a statement today, police said investigators had identified constable Farzand Ali Jaffery, 40, as the prime suspect in the case and began a search for him.
According to police, the constable shot himself dead near Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block-7 on Monday night to avoid arrest.