Woman allegedly strangled to death by father-in-law

Suspect fled after killing daughter-in-law

JARANWALA:

A woman was strangled to death by her father-in-law over a domestic dispute on Saturday.

Reportedly, suspect Ikram had an altercation with his daughter-in-law Aqsa Bibi in Chak No. 434 GB area.

During the quarrel, the suspect Ikram got infuriated and grabbed the victim’s neck strangling her with a rope. Aqsa died on the spot.

The suspect reportedly fled from the scene after killing his daughter-in-law.

Police took the body into custody and started a search operation to arrest the suspect.

A case was registered against the escaped suspect under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) based on the complaint of the victim’s brother.

Punjab has witnessed several domestic violence and murder cases where women were subjected to death after severe physical torture.

On January 16, a man, along with his other family members killed his wife by hanging her with a ceiling fan.

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 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.

Similarly, 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 struck her with an axe over a domestic dispute.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 30^th, 2022.