Protest against 'flawed' police probe into murder.

KASUR -- Showing distrust in police investigation into a murder case, scores of villagers took to the streets on Wednesday in Allahabad area.

The protesters, including women, blocked the Dipalpur Road near Bhakoki village by burning tyres, raised slogans against the police and demanded justice.

Some two months back, four suspects nominated in a first information report shot dead Sajjad Dogar in broad daylight to settle an old score.

The suspects are currently in the judicial lock-up.

The family of the deceased alleged that the Allahabad police changed the weapon of murder in terms of bore to give the accused the benefit of the doubt.

The protesters also alleged that police had been given bribe to dent the prosecution case by changing the weapon of murder and consequently the nature of wounds that caused the death of Dogar.

Mother of the victim, Sakina Bibi, said a couple of weeks before the incident, her son Sajjad had submitted an application to the local police that the suspects (later nominated in the FIR) wanted to kill him but police failed to protect him.

Later, on the assurance of police...

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