LAHORE: Ghaziabad police on Tuesday arrested a man who, according to police, has confessed to murdering his wife and daughter in the name of ‘honour’.
The police believe that the wife was killed in early hours of Tuesday morning. Based on the man’s confession, he killed his daughter a few months ago.
The police say that the cart-dragger, identified as Rehmat Ali, killed his wife, Allah Rakhi, on suspicion of having an affair with another man. Ali had hid the body of the mother of seven in a heap of wood in a cattle shed. The police believe that he was making arrangements to bury the body when the police, acting on a tip off, conducted a raid.
The police recovered the body as well as the murder weapons, a hammer and a meat-cleaver. Ali confessed that he had killed his wife. The police said that he also confessed to killing his teenage daughter three months ago.
Ghaziabad police Station House Officer, Atif Zulfiqar, told The Express Tribune that after he had deputed three policemen in plain clothes in the Nizampura area to arrest Ali after they received a tip about the murder. According to some media reports, the neighbours tipped off the police.
The SHO speculated, based on the injuries on Allah Rakhi’s body, that Ali had hit her repeatedly with the meat cleaver. “Her head was also bashed in with a hammer,” the police official said. “Rehmat Ali told us that he had asked his wife to help him with milking the cow. After luring her into the cattle shed, he attacked her,” he added.
Ali also confessed that he had killed his 17-year-old daughter, Surayya, three months ago to save his ‘honour’. The SHO said that the police had exhumed Surayya’s body from below the cattle shed after he identified the place where he had buried her. Both the bodies were sent to the mortuary for an autopsy on Tuesday. The police registered a double murder FIR citing Khushi Muhammad, Allah Rakhi’s father, as complainant.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2011.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ