Quetta police have arrested a teenager as a suspect in the murder of a young boy whose partially burned corpse was found on September 20.
The incident took place in Hazara Town, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
SSP Serious Crimes Unit Zohaib Mohsin told a press conference on Sunday that the police arrested Mushtaq Hussain, also known as Mehdi, for killing Arman Ali.
He told media that the suspect confessed during the investigation to have planned the crime after watching scenes from a crime series on social media.
Mushtaq explained how he executed the plan to the police team. He took a knife and a hammer, hid them in a school bag, and went to the crime scene, where he found a boy flying a kite. Luring the boy with a juice packet, he then attacked him.
He maintained that he did not know the boy and claimed he acted based on what he had seen in the series.
Victim’s father Muhammad Naeem registered a case with the police after which the police started an investigation.
Dawn reports that the investigation involved geo-fencing of the crime scene and examining footage from nearby CCTV cameras with the assistance of Frontier Corps Balochistan.
Suspicious individuals were brought in for questioning. However, Mushtaq was included in the investigation on Sept 29, SSP told the media.
