Man accused of murdering wife, son arrested

Police say suspect’s father, brother are also involved in killing

DIJKOT:

Police on Tuesday arrested the man who had allegedly slaughtered his wife and five-month-old infant two days ago. SSP (Investigation) Capt (retd.) Rai Ajmal, along with Khurrianwala DSP Usman Warraich and SHO Rai Arshad, said this while addressing a press conference.

The media were informed that on March 28, the accused, Shan alias Shani, had allegedly killed his wife Shumaila Bibi and five-month-old son at his house with the help of his father Arshad and brother Qaisar over a domestic issue.

The SSP added that Shan had fled the crime scene, and the father of the accused, Arshad, informed the police about the dual-murder incident.

DSP Usman Warraich and SHO Rai Arshad had arrived at the crime scene and collected evidence. They had also taken the father of the accused, Arshad, into custody due to contradiction in his statements.

He then told the police that he, along with his sons, had murdered Shumaila Bibi and her five-month-old son Hamza over “domestic misconduct”, the SSP told the media.

The SSP said that police managed to arrest Shan after Arshad identified certain areas where he thought his son could be hiding.

The SSP said that Shan had been wanting his wife’s younger sister’s hand for his brother Qaiser.

When Shumaila's father Zulfiqar, a resident of 626 GB, refused to marry her younger daughter to Qaiser, the accused started quarrelling with his wife and even started her character assassination.

Four hours after the incident, Arshad reported the double-murder incident and tried to hoodwink the police to hide his alleged involvement in the matter.

However, police got suspicious on the basis of his contradictory statements and also because of the fact that he took four hours to report about the murders to the police.

In response to a question, the SSP said that in most of the cases of murder in the family, the plaintiffs preferred to go for reconciliation “due to which we apply Section 311 TP of the Pakistan Penal Code in such cases in which the chances of reconciliation are less, and the case is sent to the court for hearing”.

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