Mardan: A student of Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU) who is accused of shooting peer Mashal Khan was presented in an antiterrorism court on Friday and is in police custody for four days along with five others suspects.
The other suspects included students Abbas, Suleman, Usman and university employees Shabir Ahmad and Nawab Ali.
Police said the accused’s shooter was arrested on Thursday and identified as Imran, a classmate of Mashal in the Journalism Department.
“Two confessional statements mentioned the name of Imran, who shot at Mashal,” said DIG Mardan Alam Khan Shinwari. The culprit has confessed to the crime in front of the magistrate, he added.
On Friday, District Police Officer (DPO) Mardan Mian Saeed said five more suspects have been arrested in Khan’s murder case, taking the number of arrested suspects to 47.
Talking to media, the DPO said that 49 suspects had been identified in the lynching of Khan, of which 47 have been arrested while two were still at large.
Mian Saeed added they had information that two had been hiding in tribal areas.
On April 23, an employee of the university wanted for inciting the mob which murdered Khan was arrested.
The student was killed by an angry mob who had accused him of blasphemy on April 13.
