KARACHI: A medical board constituted to determine the age of the prime suspect in the Suleman Lashari murder case declared Salman Abro a minor on Monday, following which he was shifted to a juvenile jail in Karachi, DawnNews reported.

The medical board’s decision was challenged by the victim’s father.

The board was earlier asked to determine the age of the suspect and subsequently conducted an ossification test of Salman Abro.

Doctors had predicted that Abro’s age will be somewhere between 17 to 18 years.

In May, the son of a police superintendent Salman Abro, along with five police guards, arrived at the bungalow of Suleman Lashari where an exchange of fire took place over a petty issue. As a result, Lashari was shot dead.

The brother of the deceased, Zeeshan Mustafa, in his complaint lodged at the Darakshan police station said a quarrel between his brother and Salman Abro had taken place a few days ago at the Seaview over ‘a car race’, said the SHO.

The police produced Abro and four police guards Yasin Jamali, Imran Ali, Maqbool Brohi and Mohammad Rashid in an anti-terrorism court as their remand ended on May 27.

Initially the police reports said that that the medico-legal certificates of the Jinnah Hospital and the Ziauddin Hospital confirmed that the suspect was over 18 years of age.

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