Woman, brother held for husband’s murder

Victim was killed with axe, body dumped in canal

FAISALABAD:

Police have arrested a murdered man’s wife, brother and an accomplice on charges of killing him.

The woman reportedly planned the murder along with her brother-in-law who killed him with an axe after she made him drink intoxicant milk.

The victim’s brother along with a friend threw the body hidden in a sack in Rajaba Canal.

Police arrested the three accused, recovered the body and including provisions related to murder in a kidnapping case registered earlier.

The victim, 42-year-old landowner Zulfiqar, son of Abdullah, a resident of Chak No 244RB, Wasiran, had married 32-year-old Rani Bibi 17 years ago. The couple had four children.

The woman conceded during interrogation that four years after the marriage, she had an affair with her 28-year-old brother-in-law Hayat.

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She along with her brother-in-law planned to kill her husband and get him out of the way.

Hayat persuaded his friend Ali Sher to assist him by bribing him with Rs150,000 and also gave him Rs50,000 in advance.

On June 27, Hayat brought sleeping pills and gave them to Rani Bibi who mixed them in her husband’s milk on the night of June 28.

As soon as Zulfiqar fainted, Hayat, along with his friend Sher killed him with an axe, severing his neck.

They put the body in a sack, took it on his motorcycle to Rajaba Canal near the village and threw it into the water.

They also threw the motorcycle into the Satiana Canal to mislead local people. Later, Hayat pretended that his brother had been kidnapped and kept looking for him along with his family.

When Zulfiqar was not found for two days, his sister Zehra Khan informed the Saddar police. Saddar SHO Abid Hussain Jutt brought the matter to the notice of DSP Jamshed Iqbal Nasir Chishti and registered a case.

The DSP ordered questioning of the deceased’s wife Rani Bibi and his other relatives.

The police conducted interrogation of Hayat and Rani Bibi and their statements turned out to differ from each other.

Rani Bibi revealed that she had a relationship with her brother-in-law and both of them had got Zulfiqar out of the way to get married.

She said that her husband was killed by Hayat and his friend Sher and his body was dumped in Rajaba Canal.

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Police carried out a raid and arrested Hayat’s friend Sher after Rani Bibi’s statement. The arrested accused Hayat and Sher went with DSP Chishti and SHO Jutt to recover Zulfiqar’s body.

The police retrieved the body from the canal and handed it over to the family after postmortem.

A case was registered and remand obtained after presenting the accused in a court for finding the murder weapon.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 6^th, 2020.