Employer who crushed worker to death with car killed in police 'encounter'

Employer who crushed worker to death with car killed in police 'encounter'
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Summary The suspects tried to prove the murder was an accident, but videos from multiple CCTV cameras from different angles proved that it was not an accident but a brutal murder.

BAHAWALPUR (Dunya News) – The suspect, who crushed an orphan to death with his car in Multan, was killed in an alleged police encounter.

The accused had crushed a 15-year-old boy identified as Waseem Abbas with a car on Monday. The orphaned child, Waseem Abbas, was fed up with alleged inhuman behaviour of the accused Tauqir and did not want to work.

According to District Officer CCD Irfan Akbar, after the incident, accused Tauqir Nazir was arrested and presented in the court and then the accused was handed over to the police on a four-day remand by the Judicial Magistrate from where he had fled.

The CCD officer said the police tried to stop two motorcyclists on the Northern Bypass Bahawalpur.
He said when the police stopped them, the accused opened fire while running away. During this, accused Tauqir was killed by the fire of his own accomplice, who later fled.

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It should be noted that the lawyers had also subjected the accused to torture during his appearance in the court.

Various CCTV footage of the killing of a 15-year-old orphan boy by being crushed under a car in a private housing society in Multan showed scenes of the boy being chased and then run over by a car.

The suspects tried to prove the murder was an accident, but videos from multiple CCTV cameras from different angles proved that it was not an accident but a brutal murder.

In the videos, the boy can be seen running away and the suspects chasing him.

Another CCTV camera video also captured the painful scene in which the suspects ran over the boy with a speeding car, killing him on the spot.

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After the incident, the police took action and arrested an accused and registered a murder case against him.

According to CPO Multan Akhtar Farooq, the deceased boy was staying in an NGO orphanage, from where he was sent to the accused Tauqeer 7 days ago to learn the work of an electrician.

The accused used to take electrical work contracts in different buildings and in the past also the children of the orphanage have been getting training from him.

According to the police, when the boy left the work, he was chased and a car was run over him. 

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