LARKANA, Dec 13: Suspended Mahota SHO Abdul Nabi Rind slipped away from the police station on Friday to avoid being arrested.

The DPO, Larkana, had ordered the arrest of Rind for hushing up the murder of a girl, Shamshad Kehar, after taking bribe from her alleged killers.

After the statement of the father of the deceased girl, the police registered a murder case against her father, uncle and the others and deputed divers to fish out her body from the Dadu Canal.

The investigation into the murder case continued as Mukhtiar Kehar, the father of the deceased girl, acknowledged during interrogation that his daughter was killed.

He said that his brother Manzoor told him that Shamshad was killed after allegedly being found in an objectionable condition with a boy, Masood Kehar alias Shashoo, resident of Agani village.

Her body, wrapped in a bed sheet, was thrown into nearby Dadu Canal, he said.

Manzoor, after committing crime, met the SHO, Mahota, and struck a deal with him for hushing up the killing by paying him Rs35,000, he concluded.

Huzooran, the mother of the deceased girl, said at the local women police station that she tried her best to rescue her daughter and implored the alleged killers in the name of Holy Quran not to kill her but to no avail.

Insisting on the innocence of the deceased girl, she said that Manzoor had levelled a baseless charge of adultery against her.

She said that she also received injuries while saving her daughter.

Meanwhile, ASI Ghulam Abbas Chandio, on behalf of the state, lodged an FIR against Mushtaq, Manzoor, Mukhtiar, Akhtiar and Shahmeer under section 302, 201, 148 and 149, PPC, with the Mahota police.

He stated in the FIR that the accused, over the pretext of Karo-kari, killed Shamshad with sticks, stones and axes.

On the other hand, five divers begun the efforts to fish out the body of Shamshad from the Dadu Canal, the police sources said.

However, the body was not recovered till the filing of this report.

In a related development, the DPO, Larkana, appointed Abdul Hakim Mazari the new SHO of the Mahota police station.