Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Oct 2: Manjakote police is still clueless over the blind murder of a 40-year-old man, running a welding shop at Mendhar even after 12 days of the incident.
Identified as Abdul Majid, son of Alaf Din, resident of Darana in Mendhar, his dead body was found lying near his car on the road side at Deri Lalyot village in Manjakote tehsil of Rajouri during early morning on September 20. He had left for Jammu from Mendhar in his own car to meet his lawyer on the late evening of September 19. Next morning his body with multiple injuries was found lying on Bhimber Gali-Rajouri road. He had bullet injury on one side of his forehead near eye.
His brother had also been murdered some time back during Panchayat elections at the village and ten persons were booked by the police and they were lodged in jail. Nine of them had managed to get bail and they were issuing threats to the family for the last few weeks. The said case was under trial in the High Court at Jammu and deceased was going to Jammu to meet their lawyer.
While family members of the deceased alleged that police was not taking much interest in the case and failed to arrest the accused persons involved in this murder, the police has claimed that they had detained two-three suspects in this connection but they were found to be innocents.
SDPO Manjakote, Zakir Shaheen Mirza when contacted said that police was working on the case. He said several suspects were placed under sustained interrogation but the case will be solved shortly. He said the postmortem report is also yet awaited.
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