Man booked for allegedly poisoning wife
Samples from woman sent to Lahore for chemical analysis
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ISLAMABAD:
Police on Saturday booked a man for allegedly poisoned his wife to death in the Shams Colony area.
According to the complaint, lodged by the woman’s mother Gulnaz, her 20-year-old daughter had been married to Imdadullah from Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The couple were living in the Shams Colony area of the capital.
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On Friday night, Imdadullah called his in-laws and told them that his wife had fallen grievously in and had to be admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences [PIMS].
Hearing about the ill health of her daughter, Gulnaz said they rushed to the emergency department at PIMS. There, Imdadullah gave his mother-in-law a subscription for some medicines and sent her off to the pharmacy.
When the complainant returned with the prescribed medicines, she was told by hospital officials there that her daughter had succumbed to her ailment and that her son-in-law had taken the body to his ancestral village in Charsadda in a private ambulance.
Along with her relatives, Gulnaz said she journeyed to Charsaddah. There they sought help from the local police to take possession of her daughter’s body. Suspecting her son-in-law of foul play, Gulnaz subsequently brought the body of her daughter back to PIMS for a post-mortem report.
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Meanwhile, Gulnaz also filed a complaint with the Shams Colony police where she accused Imdadullah of murdering her daughter by poisoning her.
A police official told The Express Tribune that the autopsy had confirmed that the young girl had died after consuming a toxic substance.
“White bubbles of saliva were seen coming out of her mouth, and the suspect had himself initially told doctors at the hospital that the woman had taken something toxic, which led to the suspicion that she may have been given rat poison,” a police officer said.
He, however, added that there was also a possibility that the deceased had taken the poison herself in a suicide bid.
While medical officials at the PIMS carried out an autopsy on Saturday, samples from the girl’s stomach were dispatched to Lahore for a forensic chemical examination to ascertain what kind of toxic cocktail the deceased had consumed.
Meanwhile, a police investigator claimed that the suspect was a drug peddler who used the deceased as a cover to smuggle drugs.
Till the filing of this report, no arrests had been made in the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2017.
Police on Saturday booked a man for allegedly poisoned his wife to death in the Shams Colony area.
According to the complaint, lodged by the woman’s mother Gulnaz, her 20-year-old daughter had been married to Imdadullah from Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The couple were living in the Shams Colony area of the capital.
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On Friday night, Imdadullah called his in-laws and told them that his wife had fallen grievously in and had to be admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences [PIMS].
Hearing about the ill health of her daughter, Gulnaz said they rushed to the emergency department at PIMS. There, Imdadullah gave his mother-in-law a subscription for some medicines and sent her off to the pharmacy.
When the complainant returned with the prescribed medicines, she was told by hospital officials there that her daughter had succumbed to her ailment and that her son-in-law had taken the body to his ancestral village in Charsadda in a private ambulance.
Along with her relatives, Gulnaz said she journeyed to Charsaddah. There they sought help from the local police to take possession of her daughter’s body. Suspecting her son-in-law of foul play, Gulnaz subsequently brought the body of her daughter back to PIMS for a post-mortem report.
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Meanwhile, Gulnaz also filed a complaint with the Shams Colony police where she accused Imdadullah of murdering her daughter by poisoning her.
A police official told The Express Tribune that the autopsy had confirmed that the young girl had died after consuming a toxic substance.
“White bubbles of saliva were seen coming out of her mouth, and the suspect had himself initially told doctors at the hospital that the woman had taken something toxic, which led to the suspicion that she may have been given rat poison,” a police officer said.
He, however, added that there was also a possibility that the deceased had taken the poison herself in a suicide bid.
While medical officials at the PIMS carried out an autopsy on Saturday, samples from the girl’s stomach were dispatched to Lahore for a forensic chemical examination to ascertain what kind of toxic cocktail the deceased had consumed.
Meanwhile, a police investigator claimed that the suspect was a drug peddler who used the deceased as a cover to smuggle drugs.
Till the filing of this report, no arrests had been made in the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2017.