Three booked in TikToker Ayesha's 'murder' case

• Police also detain victim's mother-in-law and husband.
• Renter of car that dropped Ayesha also in police custody.
• Deceased woman died due to drug overdose at party in DHA.

KARACHI: The Karachi police Tuesday progressed in the investigation of the murder case involving TikToker Ayesha, whose body was dumped at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) last week.

A few days after the incident was initially reported, the police registered a first information report (FIR) based on a complaint filed by Sultan, the victim's father, under murder charges.

Through the probe, the police found that the victim died as a result of a drug overdose at a dance party held in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) three days earlier.

Three people have been booked for Ayesha's murder, including a man named Jibran Saleem alias Jerry, a woman named Pinky and another suspect Ali who left her body at the hospital, while a man named Sameer is also mentioned in the case.

The contents of the FIR mentioned that Sultan, a resident of Punjab's Okara district, received a phone call at his home informing him about his daughter's death following a drug overdose at a dance party. Jibran, Ali, and Pinky took Ayesha to the dance party in DHA Phase-II Sunset Boulevard, where Sameer was already present, the FIR mentions.

On the other hand, progress in the probe also came after Jibran was identified using CCTV footage and eventually arrested during a raid carried out in DHA.

Meanwhile, the police have also detained the deceased woman's husband and mother-in-law as well as the renter of the car used to dump the body at JPMC.

Police, on the other hand, are still waiting for Ayesha's post-mortem report.

On Saturday, two unidentified people abandoned the young girl's body in the JPMC's emergency ward and hurriedly sneaked out of the crowded trauma centre.

According to police officials, hospital authorities confirmed that a man and woman brought the body to the hospital that morning and fled. "The deceased was brought from Defence Housing Authority," the police had said.

'No legal action'

Meanwhile, Ayesha's mother-in-law, Nusrat Sobia, who resides in Karachi, was investigated by the police.

"I have been living in Gulistan-e-Jauhar for 16 years. Muhammad Adil is my elder son and drove a taxi until six months ago," she said.

Sobia added that her son is a drug addict and returns home after several days. She revealed that her son married Ayesha two years ago.

"Ayesha used to live with me and work at a salon. I was visiting my native town in Punjab for the last one week," she said, adding that the family neither had any dispute nor enmity with anyone.

"We do not want any kind of legal action," the mother-in-law had said in her statement to the police.