Muhammad Ahmed, the business partner of Mir Raza Ali, approached an Additional District and Sessions Court seeking pre-arrest bail in the murder case, which was granted.
He filed an application for interim pre-arrest bail before the court, which granted him bail against a surety of Rs100,000. During the hearing, Ahmed’s counsel, Advocate Khalid Mumtaz, told the court that his client was a business partner of the deceased.
“My client was Ali’s business partner. Ahmed operated one shop while Ali ran the other,” the counsel submitted.
He said police were also including Ahmed in the investigation and that his client feared arrest despite cooperating with investigators. The court directed Ahmed as well as the investigating officer to appear before it on August 15.
On August 9, Sindh police had constituted a new investigation team comprising five members after contradictions emerged between the two post-mortem report findings submitted on July 29 and August 8, respectively.
Farooqui was appointed chairman of the five-member team, while Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rapid Response Force (RRF) Alfalah Karachi Syed Muhammad Ali Raza was notified as its secretary. Meanwhile, Superintendent of Police (SP) Investigation Korangi Qais Khan, SP Investigation Central Anam Tajjamul, and Station Investigation Officer (SIO) PS Zaman Town Police Inspector Ch Ghazanfar were designated as members.
According to an official order issued by AIG Operations Bashir Ahmed Brohi, the new team was tasked with supervising the investigation into FIR No 795/2026, registered under sections 365 (Abduction), 302 (Punishment for intentional murder) and 201 (Causing evidence disappearance) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) at Ferozabad police station, District East.
The notification allowed the team to co-opt any officer to assist the probe.
