KATHMANDU: Five days after his murder in cold blood, media baron Jamim Shah was laid to rest at the Swoyambhu Kabiristan burial ground as per Sunni Muslim tradition.

Shah, the chairman of Space Time Network and Channel Nepal Television, was gunned down in Lazimpat on Sunday.

The Muslim funeral prayer — Janaza Prayer — was recited to wish for the eternal peace of the departed soul with one’s shoes and sandals off as a respect, followed by the final rites. Janaza Prayer is considered an essential part of a funeral service for Muslim followers.

Jackie, Shah’s only issue, offered at least three handfuls of soil to his father’s body in the grave in the evening, while other Muslim well-wishers followed him. Hundreds of people, irrespective of their religious faiths, attended the funeral. A tearful funeral procession that began from his residence in Panipokhari at around 2:30 passed through Lainchaur, Sorhakhutte and Sobha Bhagwati to the graveyard. Anjali, his widow, collapsed when she bid farewell to her loved one. A pall of gloom has descended on the Shah family and the entire media industry following the murder of the flamboyant media entrepreneur. Hundreds of people, including government officials, political leaders and well-wishers continue to flood his residence to console the grieving family.

Born in 2018-11-18 BS at Otu in Kathmandu, Shah was a cable and satellite television pioneer of Nepal.

The mourners displayed Shah’s portraits and placards that read ‘Step down incompetent Home Minister; bring the culprits to justice’ long live Jamim Shah’ during the funeral procession.

7 picked up in Lalitpur

KATHMANDU: The Metropolitan Police Range in Lalitpur on Thursday arrested seven persons in connection with the murder of Jamim Shah, the media baron who was killed on Sunday. However, details of the suspects were not immediately known. Meanwhile, a suspect, who was arrested by security officials at the Tribhuvan International Airport, was released later on Thursday after he was found innocent. Manoj Abdulkar, from Madhya Pradesh in India, was on his way to New Delhi via a Jet Airways plane when he was detained in connection with Shah’s murder.