Jilted lover kills beloved, self

Alleged killer took the extreme step after victim refused to elope with him

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A middle-aged man committed suicide after killing his cousin, a student of BA, for refusing to marry him on Friday. Police took both the bodies into their custody and shifted them to the hospital for autopsy.

Police said 40-year-old Ishaq Muhammad, a resident of Pindi Bhattian, had been visiting his relative Abbas’s house for seven months. During this time, the suspect developed a relationship with Abbas’s 24-year-old daughter, a BA student. He persuaded her to marry him. Meanwhile, the victim’s family arranged her wedding in a nearby village of Mitranwali on March 27. On Friday afternoon, Ishaq Muhammad came to his cousin Mudassira Bibi’s house with a gun. He asked her to elope with him, but she refused.

In a fit of rage, the suspect shot the girl and later committed suicide with the same gun. DSP Nishatabad Fayyaz Ehsan, SHO Sahiyanwala Sub-Inspector Asif Nadeem Butt rushed to the spot. They took possession of both the bodies and shifted them to the hospital for postmortem. Police said the suspect was already married and he has divorced his wife. Any legal action will be taken on the complaint. This is not the first incident of murder and suicides in the region over marriage disputes. Earlier on July 12, 2020, last year, a man shot dead his two nieces over a marriage dispute on Saturday. Tandlianwala city police took both the bodies into their custody, shifted them to a hospital for postmortem and started the search for the escaped murderer.

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The suspect Allah Rakha, a resident of 240 Mor, Jaranwala, reportedly wanted to marry off his sons to his brother Allah Ditta’s daughters Sidra and Rani Bibi. Allah Ditta did not agree with his brother’s decision. Due to this resentment, Allah Rakha came to his brother’s house and opened fire on his daughters. As a result, the girls died on the spot.Separately, on May 10, 2019, a 16-year-old girl was set on fire after her family rejected a marriage proposal in Muzaffargarh.

Police said Misbah, a resident of Basti Miani, was sleeping at her house when the suspect named Yousuf along with his unidentified accomplice entered the house around midnight and sprinkled patrol over the girl sleeping inside a room. After that both, the suspects set the girl on fire and ran away. The victim’s mother said she woke up when she heard her daughter screaming in pain. She told Police that Yousuf sent his proposal for Misbah but the family rejected his proposal.