The police have claimed that a college lecturer is allegedly involved in the murder of Sindh University student Naila Rind whose dead body was found hanging in her hostel room on January 1. "You will be surprised to hear that this is also a murder," DIG Hyderabad Khadim Hussain Rind told a press conference here on Friday.
He informed that the arrested suspect Anis Khaskheli, who is a lecturer in a private college of Jamshoro and passed out graduate of Sindh University English department's 2008 batch, would be nominated in the FIR under sections 315 and 509 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
"This crime is Qatl Shibh-i-Amd which means that a person is exploited mentally and physically so much that take his life," DIG explained, adding that the sections 6/7 of Anti Terrorism Act (ATA) as well as 9 and 13 of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act would also be added in the FIR.
According to him, Khaskheli blackmailed Naila Rind and refused her marriage proposal. They became friends on Facebook and their relation continued for around 3 months," the DIG told. He explained that the sections of ATA would be inserted in the FIR because the death spread a scare among the students and their parents as they stopped sending their daughters to Sindh University and its hostels.
The sections of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act would also be included because the use of electronic media as the medium of exploiting the girl, he added. The DIG and SSP of Jamshoro district Tariq Wilayat who was also present on the occasion, informed that both Naila and Khaskheli had deleted their entire mobile record including the calls, messages, photographs and videos.
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