A court in Quetta on Thursday sent Balochistan’s Minister for Construction and Communications Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran to the lockup on a 10-day physical remand, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Earlier, the minister was produced in the court amid tight security. 

Khetran had been arrested yesterday (Wednesday, February 22, 2023) in connection with the murder of three persons.  

According to the police official, he was arrested in the DIG Police Office Quetta when he appeared before DIG in the afternoon.  

"Khetran is accused of murdering three people of Marri Tribe, a woman and her two sons and that is why he has been taken into custody," police said, as the protesters continued their sit-in in Quetta for the second consecutive day demanding justice.

In an utterly inhuman and woeful incident, three bullet-riddled bodies were found in a well in the Barkhan district on Monday. The relatives of the deceased blamed the provincial minister Abdul Rahman Khetran for the killings.

According to the reports, Khan Mohammed, a local, used to work as a bodyguard of Abdul Rehman Khetran. But after developing some differences with Sardar he fled from Barkhan but his family was held hostage by the Sardar.

Khan Mohammad’s wife released a video message and pleaded for her family’s release from the private jail of Khetran.

Previously, she had also said that she and her daughter were routinely sexually assaulted by Abdul Rehman Khetran.

Reporter: Isa Tarin