Man allegedly kills baby daughter with scissors
A man allegedly killed his three-year-old daughter with scissors and injured his wife other children.
The injured were shifted to a hospital where the condition of two of them was said to be critical.
According to sources, Zeeshan, a resident of Street No. 6, Malikpur, had had a quarrel with his wife, Shaman Bibi, 27, over some domestic issue on Friday.
As the argument between the couple intensified, Zeeshan completely lost his mind and allegedly committed the horrible crime of striking his own family with a pair of scissors, leaving his wife and children -- Huma, 3, Saman, 2, Anusha, 3, and Talha, 5, -- critically injured.
The accused escaped after committing the crime.
Hearing the screams of the children, the neighbours came out of their houses and summoned Rescue 1122 staff.
However, three-year-old Anusha died of her injuries before the rescue team arrived.
Her mother and three siblings were taken to a hospital where Talha’s and Huma's condition was stated to be very critical.
Mansoorabad police had been conducting raids for the fugitive.
Taking notice of the incident, the regional police officer sought a report from the CPO of Faisalabad and issued orders for the arrest of the accused.
Police shifted the body of the child to the Allied Hospital for postmortem.
In March this year, a man had allegedly pumped four bullets into his seven-day-old daughter in Nurpur Mohalla of Mianwali.
The accused, Shahzeb Khan, had gotten married two years ago, and Allah had blessed him with a baby girl, Jannat.
The baby’s maternal grandfather, Nasrullah Khan, told the police that his son-in-law had killed his daughter because he could not accept his wife giving birth to a girl -- and not a boy.
Shahzeb Khan was said to have had his basic education from a good school, but he was more in sync with the “mores” of a “society” that considered it “a great humiliation” to have a baby girl or to be “the father of a girl”.
Nasrullah Khan, the maternal grandfather of Jannat, said that he himself had become the plaintiff in the case, and “we will never forgive our son-in-law at any cost. We will punish him severely”.
After the postmortem at Mianwali Hospital and legal proceedings, the body of the baby was taken by her maternal grandparents to Iskanderabad where her funeral prayers were offered.
Mianwali police chief Ismailur Rehman Kharak reached the District Headquarters Hospital where other senior police officers were also present.
On the occasion, Kharak said that Mianwali police had zero tolerance for people who had been involved in crimes of such a heinous nature. The accused would be arrested soon, and law would take its course, he said.
There took place a couple of merciless incidents of infanticide in June last year as well.
A man, then, had allegedly killed his newborn niece in Tandlianwala considering her a harbinger of bad luck for the future.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2022.