GUJAR KHAN: Jhelum police have recovered the bodies of two persons, who went missing separately, from the house of the suspected killer, the police said.

According to the police, Syed Iftikharul Hassan Shah, a resident of Jasrota village in Mangla, went missing from his house on May 9. Mangla police on the basis of mobile data analysis approached the house of Abdul Rehman in Hassanabad area of Kala Gujran police station near Jhelum city.

Investigation officer Sub-Inspector Allah Ditta said it was a blind case but the investigation on modern lines helped the police in tracing out the suspect who confessed to killing Shah, 46, by hitting his head with a hammer.

According to Mr Ditta, the suspect also helped police in exhuming the body of Shah buried inside a room of his house. He said the police later found another body buried in the same room and the victim was identified as Nasreen Akhtar, 50, a resident of Machine Mohalla No 2, who had been missing since March 30. The body was also exhumed from the levelled grave on Saturday.

According to the investigation officer, the case about missing of Ms Nasreen had been reported to the City police Jhelum and after recovery of her body a separate murder case was registered against Rehman.

Rehman was already booked in a number of robbery cases. He was also charged with murdering a woman and her daughter during a robbery in Saggarpur village of Jalalpur Sharif area of Jhelum in 2015. Moreover, he was accused of killing his accomplice by hitting him with a stone at a hotel in 2010. However, later court acquitted him from the case.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2024