The police on Tuesday arrested three more suspects in Nazim Jokhio murder case and added a kidnapping section to its report on Tuesday.
An investigation team probing the murder case took the men, identified as Razaq, Jamal and Wahid, into custody and shifted them to an undisclosed location for questioning.
The police said the arrests were made in light of the statements of the accused, who are already in police custody on physical remand, adding that a digital video recorder (DVR) installed at the farmhouse of main accused, PPP MPA Jam Awais, was also recovered following information provided by them.
The police further said that besides the three suspects, who have been arrested, around 11 more people have been nominated in the case. They added that the main accused’s older brother, MNA Jam Abdul Karim, is also among those who have been nominated.
Earlier on Monday, a local court had extended the physical remand of MPA Jam Awais Gohram after the police had produced him before the court and investigation officer had informed that two accused of the case are at large.
The court, while extending physical remand of the accused, including the MPA, had ordered the police to submit its progress report in the next hearing of the case.
Nazim Jokhio, a local journalist, was allegedly tortured to death at the farmhouse of accused PPP MPA for trying to prevent his foreign guests from illegal hunting of endangered houbara bustard.
An autopsy had found severe torture marks and bruises all over the body of the deceased.
