Mastermind among four suspects involved in professor’s murder arrested

Lahore: The Lahore police on Sunday claimed to have arrested the mastermind together with his 3 partners involved in the murder of a college professor two months back.

Rao Altaf Husain, an associate professor at Government Science College Wahdat Road, was on his way to college after dropping off his son to a school in Pak Block, Iqbal Town when two unknown motorcyclists shot him dead at the Main Boulevard in November.

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Afterwards, police registered a case on the complaint of the wife of victim against a suspect named Qaiser as well as two others.

The woman told police that the named suspect shad hired shooter to kill her husband, who had been chasing a murder case against the suspect.

Qaiser, the mastermind, was married to the sister of Tehmina whom he had killed and made the case into a suicide.

Police said that the suspects were arrested two days before and presented in court. The court handed over the custody of suspects to police on 3 days physical remand.

The main suspect has confessed to his crime and told the police that he got Professor Altaf killed for chasing a murder case against him.

Qaiser told the police he paid the target killers for this murder.

Police have also arrested the hired killers Izhar, Adnan and Abid.