Man kills sister over ‘family honour’

‘Family has promised to surrender the accused’.

FAISALABAD:

A woman was killed by her brother last Friday after she was accused by her in-laws of having an illicit relationship with a neighbour.

Talking to The Express Tribune on Tuesday, Naureen’s brother, Muhammad Aslam, 25, a resident of Chak No 392-GB Tandlianwala, said he had killed her because she had brought bad name to the family. He said Naureen had been married to his brother-in-law for two years.

Naureen was sent home by her in-laws last week, her uncle said. He said that her husband had refused to live with her alleging that she was seeing a neighbour. “He said he had tried to persuade her to mend her ways but she would not listen,” her uncle said.

An FIR was registered against Aslam under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code in Tandlianwala police station. However the accused had not been arrested till the filing of the report.

Station house officer Muhammad Azhar Cheema said that they were investigating the case.

He said police had not yet raided the suspect’s house after his family gave an assurance that they would surrender the man in a couple of days.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2011.