An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi has extended the physical remand of Armaghan, the prime suspect in the Mustafa Amir murder case, until March 10. Meanwhile, the other accused, Shiraz, has been sent to jail on judicial remand.
Mustafa Amir was abducted and allegedly killed by his friends in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on January 6. According to police reports, the suspects placed his body in the trunk of his car and set it on fire in Balochistan’s Hub area.
Last month, law enforcement officials arrested Armaghan after he resisted detention and injured police officers. His accomplice, Sheraz, also known as Shavez Bukhari, had been remanded into police custody by the ATC.
The prosecution faced a setback when Shiraz informed a judicial magistrate that he was unwilling to provide a confessional statement.
During today’s court proceedings, the public prosecutor requested an extension of Armaghan’s remand, arguing that the weapon used in the alleged torture needed to be recovered.
Shiraz was also presented before the judicial magistrate and was later sent to jail under judicial remand.
Balochistan police had initially recovered the burned body from the car and handed it over to the Edhi Foundation for burial in their graveyard designated for unclaimed bodies. However, a medical board later exhumed the body to collect DNA samples for identification.
A forensic analysis conducted at a Karachi University laboratory confirmed that the DNA matched that of Mustafa Amir’s mother, verifying his identity.
