KASUR, March 2: The B-Division police have found the putrid body of a general post office (GPO) security guard earlier suspected to be involved in a ‘failed’ robbery bid on GPO premises in September 2005 from the gutters of the building on Saturday.

The remains of security guard Sher Muhammad were identified by his family and a murder case has been registered against former postmaster, cashier and another security guard on the complaint of victim’s son, Mumtaz Ahmad, claiming that the three had staged an artificial robbery to fix his father.

He claimed that the suspects had developed grudge against his father long before the robbery bid for his thwarting some ‘obnoxious’ designs of the postmaster.

Sher Muhammad of village Nand Ka Takia went missing after a robbery bid on GPO premises on Sept 11, 2005 and a local court later declared him a proclaimed offender (PO) owing to his non-appearance in a case lodged against him by senior postal officials suspecting his involvement in the bid in which no money, however, had been stolen.

Senior postal officials found the locks of the building broken on the morning of Sept 12, 2005 and security guard’s ‘absence’ from the scene led his superiors and the B-Division police to suspect that he was involved in the bid. The police later registered a case against Sher Muhammad. Subsequently, he was declared a PO owing to his constantly skiving the process of law. Sher Muhammad’s family also approached a local court and got an abduction case registered against unknown people with the same police station.

Sanitary workers were trying to flush out choked gutters of the GPO on Saturday when suddenly they found a shirt and some human bones. They at once contacted the B-Division police and later traced some other remains of the rotten skeleton beside a pair of glasses, a watch, a comb and a pen of the victim.

After initial investigations, Sher Muhammad’s family members were called who recognised the belongings of Sher Muhammad at once. The GPO officials took the stance that Sher Muhammad might have been killed on offering resistance during the Sept 11, 2005 robbery bid.

However, the security guard’s son, Mumtaz, came with an altogether strange version and on his complaint FIR No 99/08 under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code was later registered against former postmaster Anwar Sadiq, another security guard Barkat Ali and cashier Rao Sharif for killing his father.

According to the FIR, postmaster Anwar had developed illicit relations with some women of the locality. He started using the office premises to fulfil his lust to which security guard Sher Muhammad objected and this had indeed annoyed Anwar immensely.The complainant said that another security guard, Barkat Ali, had stolen Rs170,000 from the strong room of the post office sometimes ago. However, cashier Rao Sharif later recovered the amount from Barkat Ali’s house. As Barkat was blue-eyed to postmaster Anwar, the matter was covered up and no case was lodged against Barkat, who also later developed rivalry with Sher Muhammad.

The complainant said that as Anwar was already upset with his father so he, Barkat and Sharif conspired to kill him and thus they fabricated the drama of Sept 11, 2005 ‘robbery’ to sideline Sher Muhammad.

The police are hoping to unveil some sensational facts regarding the blind murder. However, no suspect has so far been arrested.

The body samples are yet to be sent for a DNA test but the police do not feel the need to get any such test conducted after Sher Muhammad’s heirs had satisfactorily identified the decomposed body.