Sea View killing: Prime suspect discloses acquaintance with biker Dr Rahim

KARACHI: Contrary to the statement given by Dr Abdul Rahim — the motorcycle rider — who has disassociated himself from the Sea View killing, saying he doesn't know either Khawar Burney or the deceased, however, the prime suspect in his statement before the police admitted his acquaintance with him.

Giving his version before the police, Burney said that the Mercedes, in which there were four youth, including the deceased, collided with Dr Rahim's bike on the road heading towards a restaurant on Sea View.

“They (Mercedes) directly hit the bike. Dr Rahim smashed into their windscreen. I chased the car and beckoned them to stop the car. They swerved towards me and continued speeding away while my friend (Dr Rahim) was on their windscreen,” the prime suspect said.

“They braked hard, flinging Dr Rahim on the road and sped away,” he added. “I don’t remember Rahim’s friends by name, Rahim was the biker. My friendship is only with him.”

Sea View killing case: Prime suspect says incident happened by ‘accident’

“I wanted to aim at the tyre but the Mercedes turned and the bullets hit the car,” said Burney

He claimed that Dr Rahim’s security guard pointed the weapon at the Mercedes’ drivers head after the vehicle had stopped.

“His (Dr Rahim’s) security guard had the rifle, he may have pointed the weapon,” he said.

Burney maintained that the incident happened by ‘accident.’ He said that he opened fire on the Mercedes after the car hit his Vigo.

“I wanted to aim at the tyre but the Mercedes turned [into my Vigo] causing my hand to flinch and the bullets hit the car,” said Burney. They hit my car three times, on the third time I fired on the car tyres, upon which he swerved into my Vigo. My finger was on the trigger while I was driving the car. While turning the car, it was a very heated moment, I fired on them and the incident happened.”

Sea View killing case: Police granted two-day remand of prime suspect

The incident occurred on Sunday after shots were fired from a pick-up vehicle at a car, which had hit a motorcycle a few minutes earlier

Earlier, the Judicial Magistrate (South) granted a two-day physical remand of the prime suspect in the case. Earlier screengrabs from a CCTV video showed Burney fleeing from the scene of the crime.

Authorities recovered the third car alleged to have been involved in the incident late on Sunday night.

The deceased, identified as 18-year-old Zafir, was laid to rest at the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) graveyard.

Eyewitnesses 

Eyewitnesses claimed that four people were on their way in a car from Do Darya in DHA's Phase 8 when they reportedly hit a sports bike from behind and sped away.

A few moments later, their car was chased down, stopped by a double-cabin vehicle — which was escorting the biker — and was fired upon by people from inside.

Police said that after allegedly firing at least nine times at the car, the men in the vehicle climbed out of and beat up the passengers.