Petty dispute: Man kills mother, sister over Rs500

All three had earlier been accused of murdering the man’s father.

FAISALABAD:

A man shot and killed his mother and sister on Thursday allegedly due to a row over Rs500.

D-Type Colony police told journalists on Friday that Shamim Akhtar’s elder son Sohail Akhtar had wired her Rs3,000 from Lahore. Shamim, 50, sent her younger son Tanveer to collect the money, who gave her Rs2,500. This led to an argument over the missing Rs500, police said. Tanveer shouted at his mother.

His sister Yasmeen Tabassum, 25, rebuked him. He shot his sister and mother several times and fled.

Naveed Hussain, a close relative of the deceased, said Tabassum had a three-year-old child. He said Sohail was in Lahore for work and sent money to his mother every month.  Upon hearing the shots, neighbours called the police. Senior Investigation Superintendent Sahibzada Bilal Umar visited the crime scene and sent the bodies for post mortem. City Police Officer Dr Haider Ashraf formed a team supervised by the Iqbal Town superintendent of police to arrest the accused in 48 hours.

Muhammad Amjad, a neighbour, told The Express Tribune that Tanveer, his mother and sister had been accused of murdering their father Younis Akhtar last year but a court had acquitted them two months ago. Police said they had registered a murder case against Shamim, Tanveer and Tabassum on the complaint of Arif, a brother of Younis.

Police said they were arrested but they struck a deal with Arif and he withdrew his complaint.

D-Type Colony Station House Officer Muhammad Usman said, “The police have registered a double murder case on Sohail’s complaint and have started investigation.” He said they were looking for Tanveer and will arrest him in 24 hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 17^th, 2014.