Apparently her family tried to kill her because she married against their will. PHOTO: FILE
HAFIZABAD: An 18-year-old woman was miraculously pulled out alive from a canal on Thursday after members of her family shot her twice, bundled her into a sack and threw her into the water.
Apparently her family tried to kill her because she married against their will.
Cantt police have registered an attempted murder case against four people, including the woman’s father and brother. The woman, a resident of Iftikhar Colony, Gujranwala, told the police that she had married one of her relatives without her family’s consent last week. She said that her family had been furious over the marriage.
“Her condition is out of danger and we have registered a case against her family on her complaint,” a police official said.
In her statement to the press, she said that her father Maqsood Ahmad, brother Faisal, uncle Ashfaq Ahmad and aunt Sajida Bibi on Thursday took her to Hafizabad to buy wheat. Instead, they shot and injured her. Presuming her to be dead, they put her into a sack and threw her into a canal. Some Rescue-1122 officials fished the sack out of the water and saved her. They took her to the district headquarters hospital.
Police said they had arrested Maqsood Ahmad and Faisal from their house in Iftikhar Colony, Gujranwala.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.
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Job well done! But, sadly justice won't prevail.