ISLAMABAD — A Rawalpindi court on Tuesday granted four-day physical remand of Ahsan Tahir, husband of slain anchorperson and journalist Rabia Ahsan, as police prepared to conduct his polygraph test in Lahore to verify his account of the fatal shooting. Rabia, a 41-year-old anchorperson associated with 92 News, was found shot dead at her home in Rawalpindi on Sunday.
Her husband was taken into custody in connection with the incident, which prompted an outpouring of grief from colleagues and members of the journalist community. The court on Monday had granted police a one-day physical remand of the suspect. Senior Civil Judge Muhammad Nasrullah Wattoo handed over the suspect to Saddar Beruni police for further investigation and directed them to produce him before the court again on November 13, along with a detailed investigation report and the post-mortem report.
During the hearing, police told the court that the suspect's statement had been recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), in which he acknowledged that the shooting had occurred but maintained that it was accidental rather than intentional. According to police sources, Ahsan told investigators that he and Rabia had been taking winter clothes for themselves and their children out of a cupboard at their Gulshanabad home on Adiala Road on Sunday when a pistol fell out of the clothes and discharged accidental