Police on Tuesday found the bones of a missing man from the oven of a bakery.
As per the details, the 40-year-old labourer, namely Syed Jan Agha Kochi, was murdered, after which his body was burned in a huge oven at a bakery owned by suspect Malik Safeer near Dari Chowk in Khalabat Township.
Police recovered the victim’s bones from the kiln and arrested the bakery owner Safeer.
According to reports, the victim worked at a junkyard. He went missing on Sunday evening. His family registered a complaint at a police station and also posted on social media.
Saddar Circle DSP Sajjad Khan constituted a team under Khalabat SHO Ali Farman to start the search for the missing man. Police found out Kochi’s daily routine after speaking his family, neighbours and shopkeepers close to his junkyard.
All the clues hinted that somehow the baker was involved.
A police team searched the bakery and its premises. To their horror, they found human bones inside the kiln, SHO Farman said.
Police arrested the bakery owner and took him to the police station for the inquiry. Safeer confessed to his crime after police interrogated him, saying it was a monetary clash.
Safeer had first shot and killed the victim and then stuffed the body inside the huge oven in which he used to bake bread, buns and biscuits. He kept using the same oven that had a corpse in it for making bread and then selling it to his customers.
The suspect also told the police about the murder weapon. The police squad found a pistol and an empty shell. They also found the victim’s cellphone and other belongings.
SHO Farman said that samples of the remains of the body will be sent to Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Peshawar for DNA test. The forensic experts will also give a report on the murder weapon, he said.
