KHAIRPUR: A court of special magistrate extended the physical remand of key accused in the murder of teenage girl Rimsha Wassan for two days on Sunday.
Khairpur Police produced accused Zulfiqar Wassan before the court after his three-day remand lapsed.
Police officials informed the court that police teams are conducting raids for the arrest of the accomplices of Zulfiqar Wassan.
Special magistrate’s court granted two-day physical remand of the accused to the police.
Wassan had earlier confessed to the murder of the teenage girl which had triggered an outcry across the country. According to the police, Zulfiqar Wassan murdered Rimsha in the pretext of ‘honour’. The accused was wanted by police in several murders, kidnapping for ransom and other crimes, police said.
The police, in a press conference, earlier said that Wassan had also killed a man Javed Jaskani and a girl Babra Wassan in 2012. Moreover, he murdered Amir Tumrani, a clerk of Khairpur’s Shah Abdul Latif University, some years back.
According to the police, Zulfikar Wassan had also murdered Abdul Wahab Morejo during the 2013 general election in a shooting incident. He had fired a rocket at a rally of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) in Khairpur district’s Kumb Town during the 2013 election, killing Abdul Sattar Shanbani in the attack.
Khairpur SSP said that Zulfikar Wassan is facing charges of six murders and 22 cases of snatching and vandalism. Police had arrested Zulfikar Wassan from village Nawab Wassan in Khairpur.
Wassan, along with his accomplices, stormed inside a house in Kumb town and kidnapped 13-year-old Rimsha. He murdered the girl on February 1 in the pretext of honour.