Crime against women: Man arrested for killing sister, neighbour

Claims he when he caught them together at his home on Friday night.

FAISALABAD/ NAROWAL:

A man was arrested by Rayya Khas police on Friday night in Narowal on charges of killing his sister and a man he claimed she was seeing in her husband’s absence.

Muhammad Akram, resident of Peejo Wali village, told the police that he had killed his sister, Saima, and a neighbour, Muhammad Riaz, said station house officer Faryad Ali.

SHO Ali said some neighbours of Akram had called him on Friday night and informed him about the crime. On raiding the house, he said, he saw two bullet-riddled bodies lying on a charpoy. “The bodies had been tied to the charpoy with a rope,” he said. He said Akran surrendered to the police and gave up the pistol he said he had used to kill the two. He said an FIR was registered on complaint of Akram and Saima’s father.

He said the bodies were sent to Narowal district headquarters (DHQ) hospital for autopsy.

The deceased woman had been married but was staying at her parents’ home because her husband, a resident of Tajpura village, was serving a sentence at the central jail, the SHO said. He said Riaz was also married and had three children. He said Akram told the police that he had suspected that the two were seeing each other but whenever he confronted his sister she denied it and instead accused him of maligning her reputation. On Friday, he said, he caught the two together at his home and shot them, killing them on the spot.

The family of the deceased declined comment.

Woman killed allegedly by brother

A woman was killed and a boy injured allegedly by a relative in Dijkot police area in Faisalabad on Saturday.

Muhammad Adnan, resident of Chak No249-RB, Baloch Wala, allegedly shot his sister, Sharafat Bibi, and a cousin. Bibi died on the spot. The injured boy was taken to a nearby hospital where he was in a critical condition.

Police said Adnan was not on speaking terms with his family and had been away from home for some days. He said the youth returned on Saturday.

He shot the two during an argument with his family who questioning him about his reason for staying away from home.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 12th, 2011.