Police in Abbottabad have recovered gold, bank cheques worth Rs12.3 million and other evidence in the abduction and murder case of Dr Warda Mushtaq, as investigators continue to piece together the sequence of events leading to her death.

 

 

The police reported that these findings were obtained from the spouse of the main suspect, Rida Jadoon, following revelations made by the suspects already in custody. 

 

 

Authorities confiscated ten gold receipts, cheques worth Rs12.3 million, and the murder weapon, a rope. The recovery of these items occurred during raids as part of the investigation. 

 

 

Dr. Warda, a medical officer at the District Headquarters Hospital in Abbottabad, was kidnapped from outside the hospital on December 4. Her body was discovered four days later in the Lari Binota area along Thandiani Road. Investigators have connected the case to a dispute regarding gold that Dr. Warda had entrusted to Rida for safekeeping two years prior to her death. 

 

 

According to the police, Rida contacted Dr. Warda on the day of the incident and requested her to come and collect the gold. Investigators have stated that Dr. Warda was taken to an under-construction site in the Jinnahabad area, where she was strangled. The police indicated that she was killed within an hour of her abduction. 

 

 

Abbottabad District Police Officer Haroon Rasheed mentioned that the postmortem examination revealed a fractured neck bone, with strangulation and suffocation identified as the cause of death.

 

 

Four individuals Rida, Nadeem and Pervaiz, and Rida’s husband Waheed had been arrested in connection with the case. 

 

 

Another suspect, Shamraiz, was shot during a police operation earlier this week. Authorities indicated that he opened fire when officers tried to apprehend him. He got killed in the return fire. His body was transported to Ayub Medical Complex.