KARACHI: Sources at Sindh Police Forensic Department have said that the forensic test of sophisticated weapons, recovered from Mustafa Amir murder case accused Armaghan’s house, could not be conducted.

Sources said that the forensic tests could not happen as software system of the police forensic department has been dysfunctional. The department sources said that the CIA also didn’t show interest in forensic test of the modern weapons seized from Armaghan’s house. “The CIA has conducted limited tests of the arms and spent bullets used in encounter with Armaghan during police raid,” sources said.

“Armaghan had used more than one weapon in the encounter with police,” according to forensic department sources. It is worth mentioning here that Mustafa Amir was kidnapped and allegedly murdered by his friends in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on January 6. According to the police, the youth’s friends stuffed his body in the trunk of his car and torched it in the Hub area of Balochistan. According to the investigation officer, Armaghan attacked Mustafa Amir with an iron rod as soon as he entered his house, resembling a scene from a movie. On Thursday, police claimed that suspect Armaghan has confessed to the murder of Mustafa Amir during interrogation According to police authorities, Armaghan’s statement was recorded on video.

In his confessional statement to police, Armaghan revealed that he drove the car from Khayaban-e-Mohafiz to Dareji. He later set the vehicle on fire while Mustafa was still alive and semi-conscious. The suspect admitted to assaulting the deceased, firing three warning shots with a rifle that did not hit him.