Overview
- Police recovered and identified the body of 30-year-old Farrukh Afzal near Mardan, and a PIMS postmortem found severe head injuries consistent with torture.
- Armed men abducted Afzal outside his F-6/1 home at night, his father filed an FIR at Kohsar police station, and relatives later faulted police for a slow response.
- Teams traced the suspects by matching motorway camera footage with an M-Tag device on the car despite a fake plate, then used mobile location data to close in.
- Officers arrested the main suspect, identified as Saifullah, in Swat and took a 19-year-old woman into custody, and the car used in the kidnapping was recovered.
- An arrested constable, reportedly the son of a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police DSP, is under remand as investigators examine a possible revenge or blackmail motive.