KHAIRPUR:After series of protests and social media pressure, the main accused involved in honor killing of a 14-year-old girl Rimsha Wassan, daughter of Pervaiz Wassan, was arrested by the Khairpur police on Wednesday.
According to details, Rimsha was brutally murdered on 1st February in front of her mother at her house in village Nawab Khan Wassan near Khairpur. Zulfiqar Wassan and four unknown accomplices are suspects in the murder case. Some reports said Zulfiqar had surrendered to the police.
Day after the murder of Rimsha, the matter was extensively highlighted in social media and people took to Twitter by using trend #JusticeforRimshaWassan.
Zulfiqar Wassan, according to police, was a symbol of terror in the area but was never arrested.
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Zulfiqar Wassan and four others on behalf of the state in order to avert pressure as the killer belonged to an influential political tribe from Sindh.SSP Khairpur Umar Tufail Khan told media that special committed teams on direction of ASP Dr M Imran Khan, ASP City Khairpur, were constituted for the arrest.
These teams carried out 28 raids, collected and analyzed technical data of more than 100 numbers and arrested 20 suspects. Umar Tufail said that Zulfiqar Wassan had been committing various scandalous crimes for last 25 years and was involved and nominated in 20 different terrible crimes including murder, kidnapping for ransom, robberies, dacoits and was wanted to police in numerous cases.