Suicide or murder?: Young maid found dead
Police is conducting an investigation to ascertain the cause of death.
HYDERABAD:
A young housemaid's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in Civil Lines on Wednesday night.
The incident took place in Syed Ali Shah Jamote's house. S, 20, had been working at the Jamote residence for the past two years.
The Cantt police have so far neither implicated anyone from the Jamote family nor from among the other domestic help at the house. Cantt SHO Imtiaz Baloch told The Express Tribune that the police is conducting an investigation under section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code to ascertain the cause of death. "After the post-mortem report [comes], we can ascertain whether it was suicide or a murder," he added. Her body was handed over to her relatives, after the post-mortem.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2011.
A young housemaid's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in Civil Lines on Wednesday night.
The incident took place in Syed Ali Shah Jamote's house. S, 20, had been working at the Jamote residence for the past two years.
The Cantt police have so far neither implicated anyone from the Jamote family nor from among the other domestic help at the house. Cantt SHO Imtiaz Baloch told The Express Tribune that the police is conducting an investigation under section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code to ascertain the cause of death. "After the post-mortem report [comes], we can ascertain whether it was suicide or a murder," he added. Her body was handed over to her relatives, after the post-mortem.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2011.