Woman gunned down for rejecting marriage proposal

Suspect reportedly instigated by relatives to carry out the shooting

CHISHTIAN:

A young man allegedly shot and killed his cousin over refusing his marriage proposal on Saturday.

The suspect, Zafar Iqbal Jabba killed his cousin Misbah Bibi in Chak 96 Fateh as her marriage ceremony was about to take place. He claimed that he himself wanted to marry her.

According to Bakhshan Khan Police, Azam had arranged Misbah’s marriage, upon which Misbah's cousin Zafar was deeply hurt. On Saturday, he barged into Misbah's house and allegedly shot her dead on the spot, while other people in the house were unharmed.

Police handed over the body of the deceased to her heirs after an autopsy at Tehsil Hospital Chishtian.

The victim's father alleged that Zafar killed Misbah at the behest of his relatives Anwar, Akhtar and Altaf. Police registered a case under section 302/109 PPC against Zafar, Anwar, Akhtar and Altaf and started searching for the accused.

Murders motivated by failures in love remain rampant in Punjab.

In 2021, a young man allegedly committed suicide after murdering a girl who had rejected his marriage proposal in Jaranwala.

According to the police, Muhammad Aslam, son of Raza Shah, a resident of Haveli Shah Din Shah, Tandlianwala, filed a report that Aashiq, son of Aman Ali Shah, a resident of Abadi Ghobe Shah, had murdered his daughter.

The complainant, who is a farmer, stated that Ashiq wanted to marry his daughter.

“Yesterday my daughter went out into crop fields for some chore when he approached her and insisted that she accept his proposal. On my daughter's refusal, he kidnapped her at gunpoint and took her to a house where he tried to persuade her to marry him,” he stated.

He informed the police that on the girl’s refusal, Ashiq fatally shot her in the head. The youth then committed suicide by shooting himself.

Police rushed to the spot, took the bodies into custody. The bodies were handed over to their heirs after postmortem. Police registered a case against the deceased Ashiq under Sections 302 and 365 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16^th, 2023.