Former MNA and Chief of Awami Raj Party Jamshed Khan Dasti’s elder brother was shot dead in Punjab’s Muzaffargarh district on Sunday when he went to resolve a dispute at Tibbi Hussainabad on Sunday evening,Police reported.
Initial reports suggest one person also sustained injuries while the veteran politician’s elder brother, Mushtaq Dasti known as Mushtaqa Pehalwan, was killed in the shooting incident.
Police said the incident took place when a Panchayat (village council) session was being held to resolve a land dispute between two groups in a Katchi Abadi of Muzaffargarh, where Mushtaq was also present.
Son of a rival group man in a fit of rage opened fire during the Panchayat meeting, leaving the ex-lawmaker’s brother dead on the spot, a police official told the media.
Following the incident, the police cordoned off the area and shifted the victim’s body to district headquarters hospital (DHQ) for autopsy.Police have arrested the young boy who hit himself in a deserted home
In 2017, Punjab police arrested Mushtaq and two others on account of theft and smuggling of timber from Muzaffargarh district.
Mushtaq and his two accomplices were allegedly cutting off trees when a forest guard informed the Civil Lines police, who immediately arrived at the scene and caught the suspects red-handed.