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| It took police about a month to reach the suspects (Photo: LinkedIn) |
On the night of May 9 in the Pakistani city of Lahore, passersby gathered on Ferozepur Road by the side of Rohi Nalla and reported to the police.
The body was taken into custody when police arrived on the scene, but it was almost impossible to identify.
When no identification document was found inside the body's clothes, when a search was launched, the police came to know that an expensive vehicle of MG Company was parked about half a kilometer away from the body.
Both the vehicle and the body were taken into custody on suspicion. Soon after, the owner of the car was identified from the ownership record as Salman Shaukat, a professor at a private university.
Kamran Adil, head of the Lahore police's investigation wing, told Urdu News that it was a difficult case. "It was dark at the place where the body was dumped.
Since most of the fences are located around the Rohi Nalla, we hoped that with the help of surveillance cameras installed on private buildings, any trace could be found.
It turned out that on the night of May 8, two vehicles entered the area. The body was pulled out of a vehicle and parked half a kilometer away.
Adnan, the investigating officer in the case, said tracing the other vehicle was another test. " Major roads used to come at the confluence of Rohi Nalla.
Then soon we found out about this vehicle that it had entered Lahore from Kasur a day earlier.
It later turned out to be a rental car, but we reached out to the person who rented it. It took police about a month to reach the suspects. Zeeshan, who rented a car, was not the real culprit.
Who was the real culprit?
According to the investigation report submitted to the court so far, the real accused in the murder is an ACCA student named Faraz.
Faraz is a resident of Nawab Town, Lahore. He and his wife both run a corrupt currency business.
Faraz befriended Professor Salman Shaukat on Facebook and met him twice at various tea houses in Lahore.
Meanwhile, Faraz told the professor how he buys cryptocurrency and it is a lucrative business.
And there are ways to get rich overnight using just credit cards and no investment. And that he is an expert in this work.
When the police arrested Zeeshan, all the accused went into hiding. It took a long time for the police to reach Faraz.
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| It took police about a month to reach the suspects. (Photo: Punjab Police) |
According to DIG Kamran Adil, the two vehicles used by the accused. Both had trackers.
All data was obtained from tracker companies. Mobile locations of the accused were also obtained.
With the help of this data, Faraz was taken into custody from Bahawalnagar. In his confessional statement to the police, Faraz said that the professor had six to seven credit cards.
Worth more than 5 million. Adnan Masood, the investigator of the case, said that after receiving this information, Faraz gathered his gang.
The rest of the gang included Zeeshan, Hassan Ghafoor and Ahmed Iqbal.
Why did you kill the professor?
Police believe the suspects also belong to a group of international hackers. The group buys and sells cryptocurrencies on the global black market through credit cards.
When the professor was called for the third time, the four accused were together. He tried to persuade the professor to immediately buy cryptocurrency with his credit cards, but he did not.
Which made things worse. According to Adnan Masood, "Professor Salman Shaukat might have intervened and handed over his cards to him, but the fact was that the professor did not have money in his cards and he wanted to keep his illusion."
The accused thought that the professor might have become suspicious. At the same time, they got out of there and stabbed him to death in the professor's car.
After the murder, the accused immediately searched the professor and took out credit cards.
When he tried to use these cards, his hands and feet swelled when he saw that the cards were empty. Rs. 1500 and Rs. 3500 came out of one card while the rest of the cards were either expired or over limit.
The accused then hurriedly disposed of the professor's body and went into hiding. Ahmed Iqbal, the fourth member of the gang, is still at large.
Police are also searching for the hacker gang with whom they were in touch.
According to the investigation of the case, the physical remand of the three accused has been completed and they are in jail while the hammer with which the professor was killed has also been seized.
On July 6, the court remanded the three accused to jail on a 14-day judicial remand while police are working to complete the challan and search for a fourth member of the gang.
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