Woman confesses to killing husband

She earlier claimed she had seen a man outside the window shoot Usman and escape

KARACHI:

A woman who had shot and killed her husband confessed to the crime on Sunday, a day after his body was found at their residence in Khairabad Yaro Goth.

The body had been shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities, where the deceased was identified as Usman, 30.

According to the Manghopir police, the deceased's wife, Begum Bakht, had initially told the police that she saw a man standing outside the window of her room, who shot her husband and fled from the spot.

However, when the police collected the evidence from the crime scene, they found a bullet shell inside the house. Upon this discovery, they interrogated Bakht, who confessed to the crime.

The police also later recovered the weapon used in the crime, which had been buried by the suspect in the veranda.

According to the police, Bakht claimed that Usman was a drug addict who worked as a labourer in the vegetable market while also peddling drugs there.

The police added that Bakht told them that her husband had also divorced her once. Moreover, she claimed, she had seen him hiding a pistol in the house a few days ago, upon which he had threatened to kill her.

She told the police that she took the pistol on Saturday and shot Usman while he was sleeping.

The police handed over the body to Usman's family after the completion of medico-legal formalities. The family will reportedly register a case for his murder after his funeral.