Across generations: Woman kills daughter to avenge grandson’s murder

MULTAN: In an act of vengeance, a mother killed her daughter who had earlier murdered her own two-year-old child in Khangarh, a sub-district of Muzaffargarh.

Khangarh police said Jindan Mai, 50, a resident of Chah Tarandowala, reached the Khangarh police station and said that her daughter Sajida Bibi tortured two-year-old Usman to death. The infant was Sajida’s son and Jindan’s grandson.

Unable to bear the loss of her grandchild, Jindan caught a hold of a baton and beat her daughter Sajida Bibi to death, police said.

“I was infuriated after seeing the corpse of my two-year-old grandson and attacked my daughter with a baton,” police quoted her as saying.

Police took both bodies into custody and started an investigation. Muzaffargarh District Police Officer Awais Malik said the matter would be investigated from all angles after an autopsy of the corpses.

He said Jindan Mai and her four sons were arrested, adding more information would be revealed after the initial interrogation process.

Man kills mother-in law

In Khanewal, a man killed his mother-in-law in the Kabeerwala sub-district. Police said Javed Iqbal, 35, from Nawan Shehar, killed his mother-in-law Hakim Bibi, 60, when the victim insisted on taking her daughter along with her to Duniyapur.

Bibi had come to Kabeerwala to meet her pregnant daughter. Police said she  insisted that Javed send her daughter Tasleem Bibi for taking better care of her.

Javed was infuriated with the suggestion and killed his mother-in-law.

A case has been registered and six people identified as Javed Iqbal, Nazar Hussain, Talib Hussain, Mohammad Irfan, Kaneez Mai and Rani Mai arrested.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2016.