Overview
- Police say Special Investigation Unit officers took three arrested suspects to Gulshan-e-Maymar to identify hideouts when the suspects' fleeing accomplices opened fire, leaving the three critically wounded and later dead.
- The deceased were named by police as Suresh (alias Sagar), Ram Chand and Anil and the SIU said a police head constable was also injured and taken to JPMC in stable condition.
- The three suspects had been placed on a seven-day physical remand after arrests tied them to the July robbery that killed 28-year-old Dr Akash and to recovered evidence including mobile phones, three pistols and an escape car.
- A judicial magistrate publicly questioned how suspects in police custody could be killed, the court record accepted the police report and the official account has not been independently verified.
- Authorities say several accomplices, including a woman, remain at large and raids and a wider manhunt are continuing while the incident raises pressure for further investigation and oversight.