Transwoman arrested in Karachi for extort and murder
Alhan Khan talks to reporters after her arrest. PHOTO: Screengrab
KARACHI : A transwoman was arrested in Karachi on Saturday for allegedly murdering a male in Tauheed Commercial Area, Defence Phase-V progressing this week with a assistance of an accomplice.
The physique of 24-year-old Rashid Baloch, who lived in Lyari, was found pressed inside a container nearby Jheel Park in the office of a Ferozabad military hire when residents sensitive military about a questionable luggage on May 30.
The military had purebred an FIR opposite unclear people during a time and started questioning a case. With a assistance of a victim’s dungeon phone and amicable media comment records, they traced a think – a transwoman who identifies herself as Alhan Khan.
According to police, they took Alhan into control and during interrogation, she confessed to Baloch’s murder.
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Jamshed Division SP Dr Rizwan pronounced a victim’s dungeon phone annals showed that he was frequently in hold with one chairman – Alhan – for a past few days and went to Tauheed Commercial Area in Defence Phase-V on a night of May 29 to accommodate her.
Alhan Khan. PHOTO: Facebook
Using a phone series as a lead, a military raided Alhan’s unit and arrested her. The building’s CCTV camera footage reliable that there had been a scuffle between Alhan and Baloch, a central said.
Police investigators pronounced Alhan and her accomplice, Taha, also a transgender person, were perplexing to extort Baloch by display him “obscene videos” and perfectionist money.
“Instead of profitable us money, Rashid started fighting with us,” Alhan told reporters during a military hire where she is sealed up. “Taha managed to overpower him by restraining him adult with a wire and afterwards we started violence him up. Unfortunately during a beating, he died,” she added.
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Then they pressed Baloch’s physique into a suitcase, called a cab and forsaken a bag nearby Jheel Park.
The investigators pronounced this was not a Alhan and Taha’s initial try during blackmailing Baloch. The immature male had reportedly befriended Alhan, whom a military are referring to as Shahzad in their report, on amicable networking website some time ago. Since then, Alhan and Taha had allegedly been extorting income from him frequently. But on May 29 when he refused to give them any some-more money, they killed him.
Police are still acid for Alhan’s accomplice.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1427203/transwoman-arrested-karachi-blackmail-murder/