Husband commits suicide after wife ‘misses deadline’

RAWALPINDI: A man committed suicide, ending a martial dispute in the  remits of Rawat police station.

According to police, Jameel’s wife had gone to her parents’ house and was not coming back despite many requests and wooing.

Disgruntled, Jameel gave his wife an ultimatum and threatened to kill himself if she did not come back on a given day. He then did so when she did not return on the day of the deadline.

Rawat police said Jameel was married four years ago and had a three-year-old daughter. The husband and wife had exchanged harsh words after which  the latter had left for her parent's house.

Jameel had made several attempts to bring her back, but she refused to do so. On Wednesday, he went to his wife's house and said that if she does not come home by 6pm, she will be responsible for the consequences.

Jameel was distraught and as the 6pm deadline passed with no sign of his wife, he in a fit of rage broke all the crockery given to the couple as dowry in the veranda of his house and then ingested some sort of poison. 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 17^th, 2019.