Body of 'honour killing' victim handed over to heirs

Victim was gunned down near China Port in Clifton Block-2 within the jurisdiction of the Boat Basin police station

KARACHI:

The family of a young man allegedly killed in an honour-related incident has received his body from a morgue, as police say they continue to investigate the apparent targeted killing of the victim, Sajid Masih and his young wife Sana Muhammad Asif in Clifton.

Sajid was gunned down alongside Sana near China Port in Clifton Block-2 within the jurisdiction of the Boat Basin police station. Their bodies were recovered on July 28.

Sajid's body was handed over to his family from the Chhipa morgue in Saddar on Wednesday. He was laid to rest at the Mohammad Shah graveyard in North Karachi. However, no one from Sana's family has yet come forward to claim her body.

Police are treating the incident as a suspected honour killing, though no arrests had been reported till the filing of this report.

In an another development, a couple and their minor son, brutally axed to death allegedly over a longstanding family dispute stemming from a love marriage, were laid to rest at a local graveyard in Ghaghar Phatak, Bamboo Goth.

The victims, Abdul Majeed, his wife Sakina, and their three-year-old son Abdul Nabi, were attacked and killed in their home on Wednesday. Police believe the triple homicide was linked to the couple's court marriage, which had taken place seven to eight years ago despite opposition from Sakina's family.

A case has been registered at Steel Town police station on the complaint of Imam Bakhsh, the brother of the deceased Abdul Majeed. The FIR names six suspects, including Sakina's brother Shehzad alias Raja, their father Gulab Khan, and an accomplice Mir Ali, alias Hasan.

Per the FIR, Shehzad allegedly called Imam Bakhsh at around 2am and said: "I have killed your brother, his wife and child. Come and collect the bodies."

The complainant told police that although the couple had faced opposition from the girl's family, reconciliation was believed to have taken place two years ago.