MARDAN: The administration of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan has suspended its seven employees who have been nominated in the FIR in the murder of a student, Mashaal Khan.

According to university sources, those suspended include a Superintendent, four Office Assistants, a Senior Clerk and a Store Keeper.

Mashal, a 23-year-old student of journalism and mass communication at the AWKU, was shot and beaten to death by a mob of fellow students at the university’s campus on April 13. The Supreme Court has already taken notice of the incident and a judicial inquiry is under way.