Police authorities on Monday claimed that they have made headway in investigation into the murder of Dr Shakil Auj, the Dean of Islamic Studies faculty, who was shot dead in Karachi on Thursday.
DIG East Munir Ahmed Sheikh, who is heading a six-member investigation team, held a meeting with Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser and briefed him over progress so far made in the probe.
The team told the VC that evidences had been collected by the law enforcement agencies and that academic and non-academic staff of the university would be made part of the investigation.
A day after the murder, police detained, for interrogation, three senior teachers of the university. Dr Abdul Rasheed, Dr Sami-uz-Zamaan and Dr Nasir of the Islamic studies department were taken into custody on Monday.
Police revealed that teachers were included in the investigation for threatening the slain professor in the past, adding they were also sent to jail in 2012 following an FIR registered on the complaint of Dr Shakil Auj who claimed to have received threats from his colleagues. However, Dr Auj later withdrew the FIR and forgave the three teachers.
Other members of the committee include SSP East Syed Pir Muhammad Shah, SSP SIU CIA Muhammad Farooq Awan, SSP Investigation Abdul Hameed Khosa and other senior officers. Meanwhile, teachers of the KU suspended academic activities and staged a protest demonstration in the university calling for arrest of the culprits.
VC Dr Muhammad Qaiser has appealed the academic staff to shun the protest and revive academic activities.
