Investigators retraced WhatsApp’s messages and calls that demanding 20 million rupees in ransom money from Mustafa Amir, during her disappearance, for a leading suspect in the Armaghan case, he emerged on Thursday.
The police said they incorporated the accelerated Shiraz Bukhari Shiraz Bukhari declaration.
On Thursday, the IO submitted before an anti-terrorist court (ATC) to Karachi according to which a medico-legal exhumation confirmed that Ummine had no trace of drugs in its system, dissipating the previous rumors and acquittal of the accent put on the reason and the chronology of its murder.
Prosecutors will present the full range of digital and medico-legal evidence, including WhatsApp newspapers, financial files and vehicle search documents during the coming hearing, because the case is heading to the trial.
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Mustafa Amir, a 23-year-old BBA student, disappeared on January 6, 2025, after visiting a call center established in a bungalow in the Khayaban-E-Momin region of Defense House Authority (DHA).
Investigators claim that Armaghan attacked Amir with an iron rod, linked his body, placed it in a car boot, went to Hub and put the vehicle and its occupant on fire before returning to Karachi.
On March 11, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) presented Armaghan to the police for more than seven days of pre-trial detention. The survey manager (IO) has seized his laptop and mobile phone, supposed to contain crucial evidence.
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On April 5, the police identified two of Armaghan employees, Rahim Bakhsh and Abdul Rahim, from Bahawalpur and was on the run. They found six SIM cards recorded under their name – one of which was used by Armaghan – and linked a WhatsApp account in the name of “Supreme Financial Associates” to the extortion intrigue. The bank accounts have opened in the names of the suspects financed the Armaghan laundering program, and the two remain sought, said the police.
On June 2, a local court granted a deposit to the father of Armaghan, Kamran Asghar Qureshi, in a case of illegal weapons, fixing a deposit at Rs 100,000. Four fir trees registered against him remained active after the police recovered arms in his possession.
Later in July, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) filed a case under money laundering accusations against Armaghan, declaring that he has run illegal call centers since 2018 which generated US $ 300,000 per month, launched by cryptocurrency. The authorities have frozen eight luxury vehicles purchased with these products.
