KARACHI: The police authorities have claimed progress in the Mureed Abbas killing case as new CCTV footage show alleged suspect Atif Zaman and his associates hurriedly leaving from their residential apartment with weapons in their hand.
Zaman shot himself after allegedly killing his business partners, Mureed Abbas and Khizar Hayat. The police said that the suspect is unconscious but will be taken into custody after recovery. The new CCTV footage also shows a body being taken by a few people including a woman.
The authorities said that the suspect and deceased had a business dispute, the suspect had called all five business partners at his place to settle the dispute.
The investigators said that all the other partners will be called for details and a new case will be registered if the weapon used in the crime is on any person's name.
The deceased's body has been shifted to Islamabad from Karachi, and will soon be taken to Mianwali for burial at the ancestral graveyard.
Mureed Abbas, a news anchor affiliated with a private news channel, was killed along with his friend Khizar at a cafe on Khyaban-e-Bukhari commercial area.
The deceased's wife, who is also a tv anchor, said that her husband invested Rs5 million in Zaman's tyre business and was lately asking him to return his funds.