Spurned suitor: Student of grade 10 shot dead

The accused had been pressing her to go out with him, victim’s mother says

FAISALABAD: A student of grade 10 was shot dead by a neighbour in Rachna Town on Monday after she refused his advances.

SHO Muhammad Farooq Rahanja told The Express Tribune that they had registered a case against three nominated suspects and an unidentified one.

The girl’s mother Shaheen Akhtar had filed the complaint. Akhar wrote in her complaint that Shahzaib, a neighbour, had been harassing her daughter Arfa and pressuring her to go out with him. “He had been trying to force my daughter to develop illicit relations but she spurned his advances. He then threatened to kill her,” she said. Akhtar told police that on Monday morning, Shahzaib and his friends Muhammad Javed, Malik Ahmad and an unidentified boy barged into her house and shot her daughter several times. She said two bullets had hit her in the head and she had died on the spot. The assailants had fled then.

The police took her body to the Allied Hospital mortuary for post-mortem examination. The SHO said they had registered a case under Section 302 of the PPC (murder) and a team had been constituted to arrest the suspects. He said the post-mortem examination report of the deceased had not been received.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 3^rd, 2016.