Cheating spouses: Man strangles wife in front of entire village

Police have registered a case on Noor Jahan’s brothers request.

FAISALABAD:

A man strangled his wife to death after he suspected her of having an affair. The incident occurred in Mamukanjan, nearly 75km from Faisalabad on Saturday evening.

Noor Jahan, 32, was married to Ghuam Mustafa, 51, nearly 15 years ago. The couple had three daughters and two sons. According to police officials, Noor Jahan’s brother Muhammad Ali recently moved a complaint with the area police alleging that his sister was publicly tortured by her husband Ghulam Mustafa.

“He tied her up outside his house and a large crowd gathered to see her being beaten with sticks and cut with a knife until she fainted,” Ali said.

Police officials discovered that ten years ago Ghulam Mustafa got a job in Saudi Arabia and used to return to his village in Faisalabad once every two years. During his absence, Noor Jahan allegedly developed relations with a neighbour Kashif.

Several villagers told Mustafa about his wife’s affair and on Saturday, he publicly tortured her and later strangled her with an electric wire. The police have registered a case under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code but the accused is still at large. SHO Mamukanjan Sher Asghar told reporters that a police team had been constituted for the arrest of the accused. He said that the accused would be arrested within next 48 hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2011.