Pakistan Punjab Police arrested on Monday the ‘most-wanted’ suspect involved in the lynching of the Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara.
“Police have arrested the most wanted accused Imtiaz alias Billi, who was involved in the gruesome murder of a Sri Lankan citizen and desecrating his body,” the Punjab Police announced on its official Twitter handle.
پولیس نے انتہائی مطلوب ملزم امتیاز عرف بلی کو بھی گرفتار کر لیا ہے سری لنکن شہری پر تشدد کرنے اور نعش کی بے حرمتی کرنے میں شامل تھا ملزم کی گرفتاری کے لیے متعدد مقامات پر چھاپے مارے مگر وہ ہر بار اپنا ٹھکانہ تبدیل کرلیتا,ملزم کو راولپنڈی جانے والی بس سے گرفتار کیا گیا#Sialkot https://t.co/pePiN586xQ pic.twitter.com/nYXuwq3fld
— Punjab Police Official (@OfficialDPRPP) December 6, 2021
The fugitive who had been constantly escaping police raids was finally arrested from a Rawalpindi-bound bus, it added.
The arrest takes the number of apprehended prime suspects in the case to 27, including the one who plotted to assassinate the Sri Lankan manager, increasing the total number of in-custody suspects to 132.
“Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar and the Punjab IG are constantly monitoring the investigation of the case. The CM has assigned the task of prosecuting the case to the prosecution secretary,” the police statement added.
The police on Sunday also arrested Adnan Iftikhar, one of the main instigators of the attack.
اس افسوسناک واقعہ پر اشتعال انگیزی پھیلانے والے عدنان افتخار کو بھی گرفتار کر لیا گیا۔ سیالکوٹ پولیس نے مختلف جگہوں پر چھاپے مار کر گرفتار کیا۔@MashwaniAzhar@arslankhalid_m#Sialkot https://t.co/rqc99kZ0Xi pic.twitter.com/es1lA6kW6w
— Punjab Police Official (@OfficialDPRPP) December 5, 2021
An FIR has been registered against 900 unidentified persons under many sections of the law, including the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Earlier today, the human remains of the victim of the Sialkot incident were repatriated to Sri Lanka with official honours, the Punjab government said. (Business Recorder)