The decomposed body of a woman found in a garbage dump in the Quaidabad area a few weeks ago has been identified as that of 25-year-old M.
The woman was gang raped by her husband and his two friends, brutally tortured, stabbed multiple times and doused with acid before she crossed the threshold of pain to the rescue of death.
Police have arrested victim's husband Qalbe Abbas, a resident of Sherpao Colony, and his two friends, Bakhtiyar and Abdus Samad, on charges of the murder of M.
According to Quaidabad police station investigation officer Zakirullah, M.'s husband Qalbe Abbas used to torture her and forced her into prostitution.
Abbas in his confessional statement told the police that M. was first kidnapped by a taxi driver Ameer who took her to his house. Later Ameer's wife sold M. to Fatima, mother of Abbas, for Rs20,000. After some time, Fatima married M. with her son who used to torture M. and always forced her to have illicit relations with his friends.
Abbas's first wife Sughra had left him for same reasons.
The Investigation officer informed that on the night between June 23 and 24, Abbas came home along with his friends Bakhtiyar and Abdus Samad. They were drunk. Abbas forced M. to entertain his friends but she refused on which they tortured her and stabbed her, they tied her hands and feet, threw acid on her face and dumped her body at a deserted place.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 10th, 2021.
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