KARACHI: In a shocking revelation, a gravedigger has been found allegedly involved in selling existing graves at a Karachi cemetery in exchange for Rs20,000.
The police came to know regarding the incident after a citizen approached them complaining that his father’s grave at the Ismail Goth cemetery was found dug up, two days after he visited it.
The complainant said that he found his father’s grave being dug up when he visited it on Eid. “It was present there two days back,” he said.
The police acting on the complaint arrested the suspect identified as Kamran as three of his accomplices fled. “We have arrested a gravedigger from ancient Ismail Goth graveyard for reselling existing graves,” an official at Sharafi Goth police station said.
The suspect used to receive Rs20,000 in order to create space in the cemetery for a new grave while uprooting the old one, they said adding that he has confessed to his crime during an initial investigation. (With input from INP)
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