Police arrest transgender for allegedly killing youth in Karachi

KARACHI: Police on Saturday has arrested a transgender person for her alleged involvement in the murder of a man.

The authorities informed that transgender Shahzad and her accomplice, Taha, killed Rashid and threw his body near Jheel Park. The law enforcement authorities were able to identify and trace Shahzad from a CCTV video; however, Taha is on run.

Police have started conducting raids to apprehend Taha.

Police further informed that the transgender used a Facebook account to develop friendships with men to later blackmail them, but as Rashid threatened to expose Shahzad, he was killed and his body was thrown near Jheel Park.

“People used to befriend her on Facebook considering her to be a woman, but when they used to reach her flat to meet, Shahzad used to blackmail them through photos and loot them,” said DSP Jamshed Town Farhat Kamal.

Shahzad maintained that she killed Rashid in self-defense.

While speaking exclusively to Geo News, Shahzad said that: “Rashid was stealing my mobile and when I stopped him – he started beating me – during the scuffle he died. I did not kill him intentionally.”