KP CM orders judicial inquiry into Mardan varsity lynching
CM Khattak vowed that an example would be set out of the culprits
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak has ordered a judicial inquiry on Friday into lynching of a journalism student in Abdul Wali Khan University by charged varsity mates.
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While addressing a session of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, CM Khattak vowed that an example would be set out of the culprits and that the slain student ‘was not involved in any activity’.
Nobody would be allowed to take the law in hands, the Chief Minister added.
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Stance of the provincial government by the top official has been cleared a day after Mashal Khan, a student of mass communication and journalism was lynched by a charged mob after an argument in the university.
Khan was locked up by his teachers in a room to save his life however, the enraged students broke down the door, threw him down from the second flood and tortured him before shooting him dead at a close range.
First Information Report lodged was lodged at Sheikh Maltoon Police Station and around 25 to 30 suspects were held after they were identified using mobile camera footages that surfaced on social media and national television channels.
Reportedly, four employers of the university and tehsil councillor have been named in the FIR.
