Man confesses to killing wife, son, in-laws

Says his wife had cheated on him, wasn’t sure of the child’s paternity.

MULTAN:

A man confessed to six murders on Wednesday in Fatahpur, Layyah. He was arrested on June 14, two days after the sixth murder. Police said he had first killed his wife and son on May 17, then his father-in-law and two brothers-in-law on June 2 and finally his mother-in-law on June 12.  

Police said he was the complainant in all the murder cases and was arrested on suspicion. They said he was arrested after investigations revealed that on all the three days the murders were reported, Muhammad Nadeem, a fare collector with a transport company in Layyah, had been absent from work.

They said in the FIR, Nadeem had earlier said that somebody was trying to eliminate his family and that he feared for his life. He had assured police of his cooperation in the investigation. Following his arrest, he had told police that she had been cheating on him. He said he doubted the boy’s paternity. He said he had killed her family after they grew suspicious about him. The body of the boy was found from Fatahpur, while the wife’s body from a field. The rest were found dead in their home.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 21^st, 2013.