Woman who ‘cooked’ husband free after 11 years

Court accepts appeal of Zainab to add period spent in captivity since 2011 to sentence

KARACHI:

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered to release the woman who had killed her husband, chopped his body parts and cooked in a pot with the help of her nephew.

SHC accepted appeal of Zainab and declared the period she spent in jail while under trial as punishment.

The court also accepted the appeal of her co-accused, her nephew Zaheer and ordered to release him.

On December 20, 2018, a trial court had sentenced both the accused to life imprisonment.

The gory murder had hit headlines in 2011. The woman had claimed that her husband tried to molest her daughter with earlier marriage.

On that morning of November 24, 2011, the landlord, Behzad, who lived on the ground floor of their two-storey Green Town house, was so perturbed by the stench that he went upstairs to inquire. He was shocked to see 40-year-old Zainab cooking Qorma with flesh chopped from her husband's arm and leg. The landlord called the police and Zainab and Zaheer were immediately arrested. She had confessed to committing the crime and had shared details with the media.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2022.