Man ‘kills’ brother in Sammundri

Victim who worked at a local kiln had a domestic dispute with his younger sibling

SAMUNDARI:

A man shot dead his older brother over a domestic dispute and managed to escape on Saturday. Police took the body into custody and handed it over to his family after postmortem.

Police said that 35-year-old Owais son of Rafiq, a resident of 465GB suburb village near Sammundri, was employed at a kiln and had a domestic dispute with his younger brother Tanzeel.

Owais was sitting in the poultry farm of Mohammad Amir, son of Botha, near his house after work when the accused Tanzeel along with two unidentified accomplices came on a motorcycle and shot his elder brother Owais five times.

As a result of the incident, the victim was sustained serious bullet injuries. He eventually died on the spot.

After postmortem, the body of the deceased was handed over to his heirs by Saddar Sammundri police. The police team filed a case under section 302/34TP on the statement of the victim’s widow Muqaddas Bibi and start raids for his arrest.

This is not the only incident of murder by a family member in the province. On November 29, a man allegedly shot dead his brother and sister-in-law over a land dispute in Dijkot.

There was a dispute over one acre of land between 53-year-old Arshad Ali, son of Rehmat Ali and resident of Chak No 274RB village near Dijkot, with his brother Akbar Ali.

After the matter was not resolved in a panchayat held a day prior to the incident, Akbar shot dead his brother Arshad and his sister-in-law, 48-year-old Kubra Bibi, with a 12-bore gun in the wee hours of the day.

The incident took place when the victims were leaving their house to work in the fields.

On October 29, a young man was arrested for allegedly killing his brother for the sake of property in Chichawatni.

On May 21, a police investigation team in Shahdara, Lahore, arrested a man for hiring a hitman to kill his brother.

The victim’s family, including his brother Ali Hassan who gave the ‘job’ to the hired gun, had registered a murder case against their opponents. Hassan had also been staging protests for justice and arrest of the suspected murderers of his brother.

Police had included Hassan in the investigations also. During interrogation, it transpired that the complainant of the case, Hassan, himself was involved in the killing of his brother. He paid Rs200,000 to a hitman for the murder of his brother. The accused revealed that a property dispute between the two brothers was the main reason behind the murder and he wanted to get hold of his brother’s share.

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