Heinous crime: Man attacks wife with acid

Doctors say she has suffered burns on 25 per cent of her body

BAHAWALPUR: A woman was attacked with acid by her husband on Friday.

Mairaj Bibi told police in her complaint she had married Malik Wasim, a resident of Dunyapur, a few years ago. She said they had a daughter. She said soon after their daughter’s birth, Wasim declared that their nikah was not authentic. She said she had taken him to court over this issue.

She said Wasim had also abducted and raped her daughter from her first husband. She said she had moved a complaint in this regard at Saddar police station.

She said he had threatened her many times, saying she would suffer dire consequences if she did not withdraw her complaints against him.

She said she was returning home on Friday night on a rickshaw when Wasim and some unidentified accomplices stopped them near Commerce College in Cheema Town and threw acid on her. She was taken to Bahawal Victoria Hospital where doctors said she had 25 per cent burns.

A Saddar police team arrested Wasim from his house. He told newsmen that he had divorced Mairaaj Bibi two months ago.

“She was blackmailing me. I paid her Rs400,000,” he said.

He said he had not attacked her with acid. “She staged this attack with the help of someone else.”

Saddar police have registered an FIR against him under Section 336/B.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2016.