Woman among three killed in Khurrianwala

A man killed his ex-wife to death who took divorce from him while two unidentified suspects tortured and stabbed two people to death in the district.

Police handed over the woman’s to her heirs and started searching for the heirs of two bodies.

Police said According to the police report, a man allegedly shot dead his ex-wife over the resentment of his divorce on Wednesday. 38-year-old Noorin Kausar, a resident of Millat Town, used to quarrel with her husband Sajid Khan on a daily basis on which she took divorce from the court.

As a result, her ex-husband Sajid Khan, along with his partner Iftikhar Ahmed, went to her house where he shot her in the head and fled.

Millat Town Police reached the spot, took the body of the deceased in their possession and handed it over to her heirs after postmortem. Police have registered a case against the two named suspects on the statement of the deceased’s son, Arsalan Khan.

According to SHO Millat Town Abid Hussain Jutt, the suspect Sajid Khan was released from jail a few days ago in a drug case. During his imprisonment, his wife had taken khula through the court due to his bad character which led him to murder his wife. The victim was a mother of four children.

Separately, near Sargodha Road, unidentified persons tortured and killed a man. The suspects allegedly tied his feet with a cloth and threw him into a dirty drain. Sargodha Road Police on the information of passerby Shaukat Ali took out the body of the deceased from the drain and shifted it to Allied Hospital's Mortuary Unit for postmortem and started searching for the heirs of the deceased.

In another incident, body of a 40-year-old man was found that was stabbed in the abdomen by unidentified assailants near Wasa Disposal, a beverage factory in D-Type Colony area. Police took the body into their custody and registered a case against the unidentified accused on the statement of ASI Muhammad Ali. According to police, both legs of the victim were tied with cloth and there were scars on his body.

Incidents of murder involving marital disputes were not uncommon in the province.

Earlier this year in March, a man allegedly shot dead his ex-wife's brother over the resentment of his divorce.

Police registered a case against the suspect under murder provisions and started raids to find him. According to the police report, Amna Bibi, the sister of 48-year-old Azizur Rehman, son of Abdul Rehman and a resident of Mohalla Khalidabad, Factory Area, was married to Ariful Rafiq, a resident of Gulfishan Town, Lahore.

On November 24 last year, A woman with the help of her lover allegedly killed her brother in Chichawatni after their marital dispute could not be solved.

The victim was a father of two children.

Reportedly, Asad Mumtaz’s younger sister Maya and Ehtesham wanted to marry but they faced opposition from Asad.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2021.