Capital crime: Teen ‘kills couple over divorce’

19-year-old girl arrested, admits to killing father, step-mother.

RAHIM YAR KHAN:

Madrasa police have arrested a girl after she admitted to having killed her father and his second wife for divorcing her mother and remarrying.

SHO Hameed Aslam said her brother, Naveed, 25, and two unidentified men who Noreen, 19, a resident of Haroonabad, said had aided her in the crime were yet to be arrested.

Talking to The Express Tribune at the police station, Noreen said she and her brother had strangled their father Yousaf and his second wife Shazia, residents of Adda Madrasa, after they fell asleep from the effect of soporific pills she had earlier mixed in their dinner on Sunday night.

“We planned to kill them to punish them for the pain my mother is going through,” she said. She said Yousaf had divorced her mother and married Shazia about seven months ago.

The suspect said she was dropped at Yousaf’s house in the evening by her brother. “I added the pills to the meal my step-mother was cooking when she left the kitchen for a while,” she said.

“I called my brother and his friends to the house when they fell asleep after eating that meal,” she said.

She said they killed the two and later dumped their bodies in a nearby canal with the help of his brother’s friends.

Madarsa police have recovered the bodies from the canal and sent them for post mortem examination.

An FIR has been registered against Noreen, Naveed and two unidentified men under Section 302 (murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Killed over suspicion

In another incident in Luddan, a woman, Nisha Bibi, was killed on Sunday allegedly by her son who suspected her of loose morals.

Luddan police have registered an FIR against Allaha Rakha, 22, a resident of Bong Azam village near Hasilpur, on a complaint filed by his uncle and brother of the deceased woman, Muhammad Afzal.

Investigation Officer Ayaz Ahmed told The Express Tribune that a team had been formed to raid neoighbouring villages to arrest the suspect.

Talking to The Tribune, Complainant Afzal rejected the allegations against his sister. “If Allah Rakha or his father had some issues with her, they should have approached me. I could have discussed the matter with her,” he said.

Allah Wasaya, father of the suspect, defended his son. He said that they had warned Nisha Bibi several times to mend her ways. He said his neighbours had been complaining about some men visiting his wife whenever she was alone at home.

He said Nisha Bibi was killed while he and his younger son were away at work. “Allah Rakha fled after killing her with an axe,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2012.