Woman ‘kills’ husband for testifying in murder case

Deceased was to appear in court as an eyewitness to his father’s killing

DIJKOT:

A woman allegedly killed her husband with the help of her accomplices in Dijkot on Friday.

The deceased was an eyewitness of his father’s murder and had to appear in court to testify in the upcoming hearing. The suspect had married the victim out of her own choice nine months ago.

Police took the body into custody and handed it over to his heirs after postmortem and registered a case against the two suspects including the deceased's wife and started searching for them.

The deceased was buried in the presence of hundreds of mourners in the cemetery of Premier Mill.

Police said a case has been registered in Madina Town police station by Muhammad Umair son of Imtiaz Wahla, a resident of New Nazimabad. He stated that his brother Hamza Imtiaz was married to Kiran Rasool, a resident of Madina Town, nine months ago and kept her in a separate house in Ali Garden.

The complainant said his sister-in-law along with their opponents who were allegedly involved in the murder of the complainant’s father in 2018 killed his brother Hamza Imtiaz, who was an eyewitness in case number 591/18 which is pending with the court.

Kiran Rasool, who had a marriage of choice with him, allegedly conspired with the plaintiff’s opponents shot and killed Hamza inside the house between 10:30 pm on the night of August 26 and 27 along with his unidentified accomplices.

Police rushed to the spot, seized the body of the deceased and shifted it to the hospital for postmortem and started searching for them after registering a case against the deceased' wife and her unknown accomplices under 302/34 PPC.

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The deceased is a nephew of former secretary of District Bar Association Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed Wahla and brother of Advocate Umair Imtiaz.

The brother of former Secretary District Bar Association Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed Wahla was killed by his opponents in the New Nazimabad area of Factory Area Police Station in 2018.

Case 591/18 was pending after it was registered in the police station factory area. The next hearing was scheduled for September 1, in which the slain Hamza Imtiaz was to testify against the assailants of his father.

Last week, a woman allegedly strangled her husband to death along with her accomplices as the man stopped her from indulging in ‘immoral activities’.

The suspect initially tried to stage the incident as her husband’s suicide. Police took the body of the deceased into their custody and handed it over to his heirs after postmortem.

The police have registered a case against four accused including the victim's wife and started searching for them.

In a case filed by Shabbir Ali Qamar, a resident of Chiniot District, Chak 209 JB, it has been stated that his brother 27-year-old Muhammad Jaber Ali, was married to Firdous Bibi.

Qamar said, “My sister-in-law Firdous Bibi's character was ‘doubtful’ and my brother Jaber Ali used to stop her indulging in ‘immoral activities’. Out of this resentment, she, along with her accomplices, strangled and killed my brother at the camp of Munir Ahmed Jutt and hanged his body with a fan and concocted a story of suicide.”

A case has been registered against the victim's wife and her three unidentified accomplices under the different provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) including 302 and 334.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28^th, 2021.