Man hangs wife to death for seeking divorce

Victim had reconciled with her husband a year ago

CHAK JHUMRA:

A man, along with his other family members killed his wife by hanging her with a ceiling fan on Saturday.

Police took the body into custody for medical formalities and registered a case with the suspect and the involved family members.

The complainant Mushtaq Ahmed, son of Nazir, a resident of Chak No 132 RB Sahuwala Abadi Jhumra Road, told police that his daughter Sajida got married to suspect Mohsin Ali eight years ago.

The complainant told police that Mohsin used to fight and beat his daughter due to which his daughter left her husband’s home and filed a divorce suit in the court.

He said that my daughter and her husband reconciled about a year later and started living happily but on the day of the incident, the suspect Mohsin along with his mother Bilqis, father Tariq, sisters Safia and Lubna tortured his daughter and killed her by hanging her with a fan over the resentment of filing a divorce case.

Nishatabad police reached the spot on information and took the body into custody. The victim’s body is handed over to its heirs after the legal and medical formalities.

The police registered a case against the suspect under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and started raids to arrest the central suspect and another family member.

The province has witnessed several cases in which women are brutally subjected to domestic violence and sexual assault. On December 21, a man axed his wife to death over a domestic dispute in Jaranwala.

Reportedly, Sonia Bibi, sister of Shehzad Ahmed, a resident of Chak No. 109 GB, Jaranwala, was injured by her husband Irfan by striking her with an axe over a domestic dispute.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 16^th, 2022.