Woman arrested for killing stepdaughter

Suspect regularly tortured children of her second husband

HYDRABAD:

Police have arrested a woman on charges of beating her five-year old stepdaughter so brutally that the child died of injuries.

The deceased child's father, Muhammad Nafees Arain, had filed a complaint with the City Police Station against his second wife for causing injuries that led to his daughter's death.

The police spokesman informed on Monday that City Police Station SHO Ghulam Mujtaba Shaikh, after conducting an inquiry of the incident, arrested Afshan Arain.

SHO Shaikh informed the media that Afshan critically injured five-year-old Anabea who was daughter of her husband's first wife.

The child was shifted to Liaquat University Hospital where she succumbed to injuries after two days on April 15.

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The spokesman said as per the inquiry Afshan used to physically abuse the slain child and her 10-year-old brother.

The SHO said that once Afshan had injured the leg her stepson.

The spokesman told that the accused married Muhammad Nafees Arain, the girl's father, after taking divorce from her first husband with whom she also left her only son.

The incident's FIR has been registered at City police station on complaint of Arain, Anabea's father and husband of the accused, under section 302, 337 Ai and 337 Fi of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in crime number 18/2022.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2022.