Suitors kill two over spurned proposals

Jilted proposers flee after murdering women

GUJRANWALA:

Two cases of murder by men enraged over rejection of their marriage proposals were reported in Gujranwala.

In one incident of firing, a girl who had rejected a marriage proposal was shot dead, while in the other, a man shot dead the mother of his former fiancé.

In the Dhariwal area of Ludhiwala Warraich, 24-year-old Samaria, daughter of Zulfiqar, was going home on a rickshaw along with her family members when the accused Naveed and his accomplices opened fire on them.

Samaria suffered bullet injuries and died on the spot. The other passengers of the rickshaw escaped injury.

The attackers fled from the spot after the incident.

The Ladhiwala police shifted the body to a hospital for post-mortem.

The father of the deceased, Zulfiqar, said that the accused Naveed wanted to forcibly marry his daughter. Upon the refusal of the family, he opened along with accomplices, shooting dead the victim.

Ladhiwala Warraich police registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s father. They police said they were making efforts to arrest the attackers.

In the other incident that took place in Ferozwala, a man whose engagement had been cancelled broke into the home of his former fiancé and opened fire, killing her mother and injuring her sister.

The suspect managed to escape after the attack. The police registered a case against him.

According to the complainant, Farooq had bene engaged with his uncle’s daughter Maryam two years ago.

However, his aunt had broken off the engagement and arranged Maryam’s marriage elsewhere.

Her wedding was scheduled after the coming Eid.

The suspect barged into the home of his former fiancé in a fit of rage and opened fire, resulting in the death of the girl’s mother and severe injuries to her sister.

According to the police, the deceased Asia and the injured girl Bushra were shifted to a hospital.

They said the attacker had escaped from the spot.

In July last year, 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 the day of the incident, 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.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 7^th, 2024.