Sukkur Police party headed by SSP Irfan Sammu raided the house of the main accused Sheral Mahar in Shah Belo. After an exchange of fire with the police, the accused fled to the thick riverine forest, SSP Sukkur Irfan Sammu said.
The policemen set the homes and bunkers of the accused on fire and are chasing behind the culprits.
“It is the first time the police reached the homes of the accused after a drop in the water level in the river”, SSP Sammu said.
Police had earlier conducted raids over houses of the accused in the katcha area in which a son of the main accused and an accomplice were injured in an exchange of fire.
Police reached the houses of the culprits after over three months of the murder.
The police department has so far arrested nine persons over facilitation and providing shelter to the killers of Jan Muhammad Mahar.
Mahar, a senior journalist and Sukkur bureau chief of a local television network, had been murdered by assailants on August 13.
The attackers on a motorcycle opened fire at Mahar inside his vehicle after he left his office in Sukkur at 9:00 am on August 13.
Earlier, SSP Sukkur told the media that three suspects wanted in the murder case were arrested in an operation in the katcha area.
The arrested persons were identified as Sher Muhammad Shaikh, Muhammad Ramzan Shaikh, and Bashir Memon. The police officer said that the suspects were handed over to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).