Police reconstitute legal team in Sidra killing case

Police have reconstituted a three-member legal team to ensure effective prosecution in the case of a married woman allegedly killed on a jirga's orders in Fauji colony.

The team, headed by District Public Prosecutor Mian Imran Raheem, includes Deputy District Prosecutor Rehman Shaukat Bhatti and Assistant Prosecutor Aftab Ahmed.

A formal notification has been issued, and Additional Sessions Judge Farhat Jabeen Rana will hear the case. Police have already submitted a challan against nine suspects.

The FIR was registered at Pirwadhai police station on July 21.

According to the police, three suspects directly involved in the murder have been identified, all of whom are brothers. The investigation team has said that the suspects include the victim's father, Arab Gul, her father-in-law, Muhammad Saleh alias Saleem, and her uncle Mani Gul.

The investigation found that the three men suffocated the woman using a pillow in Mani Gul's room. Moreover, new CCTV footage has emerged in the case of 21-year-old Sidra's alleged honour killing, reportedly carried out on the orders of a jirga in the Fauji Colony area of Rawalpindi's Pirwadhai police jurisdiction. The footage shows her body being transported to the graveyard in a loader rickshaw on July 17.

In the video, around 10 to 15 people can be seen standing near a red-tarpaulin-covered rickshaw, looking at the deceased.