Dishonourable ends: Man kills mother over ‘suspicion’

Son suspected his mother had killed his father 7 years ago, police say he suspected her of having an affair.

GUJRANWALA:

A man has allegedly killed his mother for being implicated in his father’s murder.

“People were saying that Tabassum Iqbal’s father Farooq was murdered by his wife’s family but these are all lies. Farooq died of a heart attack nearly seven years ago,” said a neighbour Rasheed Gul. Gul said that Iqbal had recently started telling people that he had discovered that his mother had her relative Ghulam Nabi kill his father so that she could seize his property. “He accused her of having had an affair with a Ghulam Nabi and said that they both had wanted his father out of the way,” he added.

“Iqbal’s father had been a heroin addict and died of a heart attack. The son was trying to blame his mother for the death because he believed she had an affair,” said a neighbour Khalida Bibi.

Mian Ji Town residents said that Iqbal had recently told dozens of people about his doubts that his mother might have been involved in the murder of his father. “He kept asking people if they thought it was been true but we all knew his father died of a heart attack,” said a resident Waleed Khan. “I think he was trying to spread the story having already planned on killing her,” he added.

Some of the neighbours told police that Iqbal kept saying that he could no longer live with the insults of villagers who he claimed had told him that his mother, Ulfat Rehana Bibi, had killed his father.  On Monday night, he allegedly killed his mother while she was asleep by suffocating her with her pillow. Inspector Javed Rahman of Aroop police station said they had registered a case and sent Rehana Bibi’s body to the local DHQ Hospital for an autopsy. “We are waiting on the post mortem report to proceed but a police team is searching for the suspect,” he said.

“So far we have taken down statements of several people and it appears that the case is an ‘honour’ killing,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 30^th, 2011.