Siblings found hanging with ceiling fans

Investigators doubt property dispute might be behind double murder

LAHORE:

A man and his married sister were found strangled to death in their house in Data Darbar on Friday.

Reportedly, police found a victim identified as Talib Hussain hanging with a ceiling fan in their house situated near Mohni Road, Bilal Ganj.

Police launched an investigation into the case after shifting the body to a morgue for autopsy and collecting evidence. They doubted it to be a homicide case.

The investigators said they doubt a row took place over drug abuse by her sister and brother-in-law with Talib was reported. Police as part of investigations when started searching for the brother-in-law (Sufyan) of deceased Talib, but they found him missing. His sister was also missing.

Police were looking for Sufyan when they learnt that the body of a woman identified as Zainab Fatima was hanging in another room on the first floor of the house.

Reportedly, her brother Zulfiqar, a rickshaw driver by profession, had found the body.

Police shifted her body to the morgue for autopsy and included Zulfiqar in the investigations.

An official shared that they were investigating the matter keeping in view different aspects. Primarily three crime theories have been included at the initial investigation stage.

First, the double murder has been motivated by a family property dispute that made Zulfiqar the survivor's family member as a prime suspect.

Secondly, police doubt that Sufyan, a drug addict who was frustrated with Talib, might have killed them.

In the past, a few such cases have been reported where a drug addict murdered his close family members. Recently, four members of the family were murdered by a drug addict in Nawan Kot in April 2021. In January, a teenager in Kahna killed five members of a family in Green Town.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 9^th, 2022.