Police claimed on Sunday that a landowner in Sargodha had confessed to killing his worker and burying him in a crop field after suspecting him of stealing last month.
Spokesman for the Sargodha police, Khurrum Iqbal, says that on August 30, officers at the Kot Momin police station learned that a man by the name of Mazhar Iqbal had been abducted on August 24 by his employer, Amir.
As soon as possible, the police reported a kidnapping and started looking for the abductee and the culprit.
According to the spokesperson, Amir admitted to killing Mazhar, whom he said had stolen from him, and throwing his body into a harvest field after being apprehended within 12 hours.
When police arrived at the scene, they found the body’s remains.
The spokesperson stated, “A case has been registered against the arrested suspect, who will be brought to justice and punished.”
He added that on August 31, a call was received by the Sargodha Rescue 1122 Control Room reporting the discovery of dead body bones in a field.
The police official went on to say that Mazhar, 28, worked for the suspect.
Mazhar was accused of stealing, so he was tortured and killed. His body was then dumped into the field, and an ambulance from the Rescue 1122 Control Room was dispatched to the scene.
Muhammad Aslam, the victim’s uncle, filed a first information report (FIR) at the Kot Momin police station on August 30. Dawn.com has a copy of the FIR available.
Twelve days before filing the FIR, Aslam allegedly met his nephew Mazhar at a fair.
The victim informed his uncle that Amir, his employer, was torturing him arbitrarily and that he hadn’t received his pay in several months.
According to the FIR, once Mazhar stated that he wanted to work somewhere else, Amir threatened to take “dire consequences” against him.
It further said that Aslam turned off his mobile and stopped communicating with his nephew after that exchange.
When he went to Amir’s house to find out where his nephew was, Amir said that Mazhar had quit his job without telling him and had moved on.
After conducting an investigation, Aslam was tipped off by two farmhands that on August 24, at approximately 10 a.m., they witnessed Amir and five other men torturing Mazhar, forcing him into a car, and then driving off.
