MARDAN: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday handed over eight suspects involved in lynching Abdul Wali Khan University student to police on a four-day physical remand.
12 suspects out of 20 have been detained so far whereas Tehsil councilor and seven employees of the university have also been included in the case.
Earlier, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (CM) Pervez Khattak signed a summary to hold judicial inquiry into Mashal Khan’s lynching.
The university administration has issued a notification, stating that three students including victim Mashal Khan were barred from entering the campus on the day of mishap.
The management has also claimed that a probe was called on as Khan and two friends had a debate with other students earlier Thursday about his religious views which became so heated that teachers had to lock him in a room for his safety.
“But the enraged students grew to a mob and they attacked the room,” the sources said.
On April 12, hundreds of students beat to death a classmate known for his liberal views at Abdul Khan Wali Khan University on Thursday, police and witnesses said.
Mashal Khan was stripped, beaten, shot, and thrown from the second floor of his hostel, sources at the university said.
“The student has been brutally murdered by his fellow students,” Niaz Saeed, a senior police official said.
“He was badly tortured after being shot at a close range… He was beaten with sticks, bricks and hands,” Saeed said, adding that hundreds of people had been involved in the attack.
However, a police source told that students had recently complained to university authorities about Khan.
