Overview
- IGP Javed Alam Odho said Tuesday the investigation had widened after the accused named certain personalities, with the FIA and the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency brought in to examine bank accounts and suspected online sales.
- A sessions court ordered Monday that all proceedings move to a temporary court inside Karachi’s Central Jail Complex because police warned of serious security risks at the City Courts.
- Police barred journalists from the jail complex during hearings under instructions from senior officials, limiting independent observation of a case that has drawn intense public interest.
- An internal police inquiry completed Tuesday found serious negligence in giving the accused special protocol, including access to mobile phones and live WhatsApp updates to senior officers, prompting suspensions that include SP City Ali Hassan.
- A judicial magistrate extended the suspect’s physical remand by four days on Monday in a Baghdadi murder case linked to alleged cocaine trafficking, after earlier reports of seizures of cocaine, precursor chemicals and an unlicensed firearm during her arrest.