KARACHI(National Times)- Police on Tuesday arrested three suspects after a senior faculty member of the University of Karachi and his nephew were allegedly assaulted with pistol butts following a minor traffic accident near Safoora Chowrangi, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
East Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Zubair Nazir Sheikh told Dawn<\/em> that the victims were University of Karachi\u2019s Islamic Learning Department chairman Dr Professor Mohammed Arif Khan Saqi and his nephew, Mohammed Waheed Rehman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe professor was travelling along a main road on his way to the university, while the suspects were reversing their vehicle when it hit his,\u201d SSP Sheikh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the police had given the professor a letter for medico-legal formalities, following which a first information report (FIR) was registered at Sachal police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe police conducted raids and arrested three suspects. Further efforts were under way to arrest the remaining suspects,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sachal police station House Officer (SHO) Aijaz Pathan told Dawn<\/em> that the suspects were influential persons who owned a restaurant in Safoora. He said raids were being conducted to arrest all those involved in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the FIR, registered on a complaint by Dr Saqi, invoked sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting while armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of an offence committed in prosecution of the common object), 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd) and 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the complainant, he was travelling with his nephew in a car to the University of Karachi when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen we reached Safoora Chowrangi near Green Hotel at around 10:15am, a double-cabin vehicle hit and damaged the bonnet of our car and attempted to drive away,\u201d Dr Saqi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the situation escalated when he asked the occupants of the vehicle to compensate for the damage to his car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Saqi added that when he asked for their names, the suspects exited the vehicle and started assaulting his nephew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the meantime, their gunmen also arrived and started beating my nephew and me; as a result, we both fell on the road after being injured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later on, the suspects forcibly took them to a nearby eatery, the complainant said, adding that they were beaten again before the suspects fled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KARACHI(National Times)- Police on Tuesday arrested three suspects after a senior faculty member of the University of Karachi and his nephew were allegedly assaulted with pistol butts following a minor traffic accident near Safoora Chowrangi, police said. East Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Zubair Nazir Sheikh told Dawn that the victims were University of Karachi\u2019s Islamic Learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n