KARACHI: The prime suspect in Haleema murder case has confessed to crime, police sources said.
Police sources said accused Rizwan had monetary dispute with Haleema. Further investigation is underway.
Suspect Rizwan in lost boy Abduallah's mother murder case was arrested by police from Super Highway on Wednesday.
Rizwan had earlier dropped Abdullah at the Edhi Centre claiming that he had found him deserted by his family at Sea View.
Later, after Rizwan went missing and a body thought to be of Abdullah's mother Haleema was found from an apartment from Delhi Colony police began to consider him as the prime suspect.
A case against Rizwan and his wife Sonia has been registered at the Frere Police Station.
Police had arrested Sonia for questioning. Sonia claimed that she did not know Rizwan's whereabouts. She said that Haleema, Sonia and Rizwan lived in the same house in Mehmoodabad. During this time Rizwan and Haleema developed friendship. She added that sometime later Rizwan got Haleema an apartment in Delhi Colony.
Investigation into the case revealed that Haleema had been married to Muhammad Iqbal, 69, a resident of Khanewal, for the last 10 years. Iqbal who addressed a press conference at the Edhi Centre last week said that he had divorced Haleema a few months ago.
Iqbal had asked for Abdullah's custody, but little Abdullah refused to recognize him.
Abdullah spends his days at the Edhi Centre, thronged by visitors and journalists, who hear about the case on television and social media.
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