Multan police have arrested a contractor accused of fatally running over a 15-year-old worker in DHA after the boy quit his job and tried to flee on Monday.
CCTV footage of the incident shows the boy attempting to run away after spotting the contractor’s car. The vehicle chases him before hitting him, causing him to collide with the gate of a nearby house. He died on the spot.
Rescue officials and police reached the scene and shifted the body to a morgue for an autopsy. DHA police later registered a murder case on behalf of the state and arrested the suspect, identified as Tauqeer Nazir.
Police identified the deceased as Waseem Abbas, a resident of Muzaffargarh district who worked as an electrician under Tauqeer.
According to initial reports, Waseem was unhappy with the contractor and had left the job before running away. Tauqeer first chased him on foot but failed to catch him. He later pursued the boy in a car with his friend Amjad Ali and hit him. Waseem died from critical head injuries.
A Multan police spokesperson said that the suspect will be produced before a court on Tuesday. The police will also submit a challan, a formal report of the investigation, in accordance with the law.
Separately, a man arrested in a cheque dishonour case died in the alleged custody of Defence police station in Multan on Monday.
Police identified the suspect as Amjad Bashir, 40, who was named in an FIR [First Information Report] over the alleged issuance of a bogus cheque.
A police official denied allegations of torture and said that Bashir’s health deteriorated suddenly. He added that police immediately took him to a local hospital, where he died.
The official said that Bashir died of a heart attack and that a medical examination report found no evidence of violence.
