{"id":3029,"date":"2026-10-21T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:03:50","slug":"laiba-ijaz-fraud-case-suspect-killed-in-alleged-police-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"Laiba Ijaz fraud case suspect killed in alleged police encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A suspect in the fraud case linked to the alleged suicide of university student Laiba Ejaz was killed after his accomplices allegedly opened fire on a police team in Islamabad, police said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Nauman, was being taken to a location for recovery of evidence on his identification when two unidentified men riding a motorcycle opened fire on the police team in the jurisdiction of Ramna police station.<\/p>\n<p>Nauman sustained injuries in the firing and was shifted to a hospital, where he later died, according to police. The attackers allegedly targeted the police to help him escape.<\/p>\n<p>Police said search operations were underway to arrest the remaining suspects involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The case had drawn national attention after Laiba\u2019s family alleged that Nauman defrauded them by promising to arrange her admission to a university in the United States. The family said the admission documents later proved to be fake.<\/p>\n<p>Laiba was a gold medallist in her bachelor\u2019s degree programme at the International Islamic University Islamabad. Her family alleged that an education consultant demanded Rs7 million to arrange her admission, and that she suffered severe emotional distress after the alleged fraud came to light.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation had also expanded to other alleged fraud cases. Police reported uncovering nine additional complaints involving claims that Nauman took money from people by promising government jobs and providing fake appointment letters.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate case, a family in Mansehra accused Nauman of taking Rs8.5 million on the promise of securing government jobs for six children. Police said the family later discovered that the appointment letters were fake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect in the fraud case linked to the alleged suicide of university student Laiba Ejaz was killed after his accomplices allegedly opened fire on a police team in Islamabad, police said on Tuesday. The suspect, identified as Nauman, was being taken to a location for recovery of evidence on his identification when two unidentified men riding a motorcycle opened fire on the police team in the jurisdiction of Ramna police station. Nauman sustained injuries in the firing and was shifted to a hospital, where he later died, according to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}