LAHORE: A local court on Tuesday recorded statements of three witnesses in Shahbaz Ahmad Tatla murder case, ARY News reported.
The police produced three accused SSP Mufakhir Adeel, Asad Sarwar Bhatti and Irfan Ali before the court in the case hearing.
The court of Additional Sessions Judge Arshad Javed recorded statements of witnesses complainant Sajjad Ahmed, Muzammil Hussain and Umar Farooq in the proceedings.
The murder case against the accused was registered at Naseerabad police station.
The court adjourned further hearing of the case until January 23.
Police had arrested SSP Mufakhir Adeel in March last year for his alleged role in murder of Shahbaz Ahmad Tatla, a senior lawyer.
The senior police official who was in hiding after murder of Shahbaz Tatla later surrendered him to the authorities.
The sources said that Shahbaz Tatla’s body was dumped into acid to remove the traces of the murder.
The police started a search for the body after the revelation made by co-accused Asad Bhatti.
Senior lawyer Tatla had gone missing on Feb 7, 2020. The police had started a search for the body on the revelation of co-accused Asad Bhatti, a common friend of both the victim and the suspect. After a month of disappearance, SSP Mufakhar Adeel surrendered to the police.
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