Three AWKU employees among 13 arrested in Mashal Khan case
PESHAWAR: At slightest 13 people have been arrested in a heartless lynching of Mashal Khan, a broadcasting tyro during Abdul Wali Khan University (AKWU) Mardan, who was killed by a host of associate students and university employees on Apr 13, after accusations of blasphemy.
Mardan DPO Mian Saeed told The Express Tribune on Saturday that 6 some-more university employees were identified with a assistance of video footage of a occurrence and 3 of a employees have been arrested bringing a series of arrested people to 13.
“Some employees of Abdul Wali Khan University could be seen among a host that has given a review a new instruction for a time being,” pronounced DPO Saeed. “These employees were really most partial of a host and this is shocking.”
He combined that a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has been enclosed in a review and military is looking into opposite angles.
The 20 suspects that had been nominated in a FIR purebred on Apr 14 include a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) internal councillor and 5 employees of Abdul Wali Khan University (AKWU) Mardan. The 6 other people identified today, whose names have not nonetheless been released, brings a series of AKWU employees believed to be concerned in a occurrence to 11.
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The FIR, that was purebred during Sheikh Maltoon military station, names tehsil councillor Arif, 5 AKWU employees: Ali Khan, an bureau assistant, Ajmal Mayar, an bureau dispatcher of a varsity bureau organisation and former bureau dispatcher of Pakhtoon Students Federation during Government Post Graduate College Mardan, Afsar Khan who is a varsity superintendent, Sajad, who works in a campus library and Nawab Ali, who works during a Physical Education department. The remaining suspects are students.
“The councillor indicted in a lynching box was a doctrinaire PTI worker,” pronounced a internal councillor, who requested not to be named due to a matter’s sensitivity. He pronounced Arif, famous locally as Arif Mardan, contested a internal supervision elections on a party’s ticket. Arif is an bureau dispatcher of a Insaf Student Federation (ISF) Mardan district.
DPO Saeed pronounced a councillor has not nonetheless been arrested since he has absconded.
The FIR purebred underneath several sections of a Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of a Anti-Terrorism Act states that students were protesting on campus opposite Mashal Khan and dual other students named Abdullah and Zubair, claiming they had committed blasphemy. Police was called in and a students were dispersed.
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The FIR serve adds that during negotiations between a administration and protesting students, military learnt that a host had brutally murdered Mashal in a university hostel. They arrived to a mark and shifted his physique to DHQ sanatorium for a post-mortem. . According to a DPO, Khan’s autopsy news had reliable that he died of gunshot wounds.
Lawyer and rights activist, Jibran Nasir has offering authorised assistance to a victim’s family. He told The Express Tribune that a organisation of activists would yield a family authorised support if they are incompetent to means a private counsel and a justice case.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1384679/three-awku-employees-among-13-arrested-mashal-khan-case/