Crimes of passion: Man guns down ‘wife’ at bank, attempts suicide
An office boy was also injured in the episode.
LAHORE:
A man on Monday fatally shot a woman worker at a bank in Township. He then shot himself and was taken to a hospital, where doctors treating him said he was in a critical condition. An office boy was also injured in the episode, but is now out of danger.
Police said that Irfan Zaman, who claimed to be husband of the deceased Rabia Munir, a trade officer at the bank, was seen sitting with her shortly before he shot her.
A bank employee told police that Zaman had been a frequent visitor at the bank. He said he had been visiting for almost a year. He said the guards and the staff had started recognising him. He said Munir had told him that she had met Zaman over the internet. She had told him than Zaman wanted to marry her but her parents had not agreed.
He said on the day of the incident, the two were having some discussion, when Zaman told Munir to get up. When she got up, he shot her five times, killing her on the spot. One of the bullets hit an office boy Muhammad Arshad in the foot. Zaman then shot himself in the head and was taken to Jinnah Hospital.
Bilqees Bibi, mother of the deceased, told The Express Tribune that Zaman had even prepared a fake nikahnama and claimed that he had married Munir.
She said Zaman had sent his parents over to their house with the proposal but they (her parents) had turned it down.
ASP Fida Hussain of Township police said that the incident represented a security lapse. He said had the guards checked Zaman, they would have found that he was carrying a weapon. He said the guards had told police that they had stopped checking Zaman as he had visited the bank regularly and had claimed to be Munir’s husband.
The ASP said that an FIR has been registered against Zaman on a complaint by Bilqees Bibi.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2012.
A man on Monday fatally shot a woman worker at a bank in Township. He then shot himself and was taken to a hospital, where doctors treating him said he was in a critical condition. An office boy was also injured in the episode, but is now out of danger.
Police said that Irfan Zaman, who claimed to be husband of the deceased Rabia Munir, a trade officer at the bank, was seen sitting with her shortly before he shot her.
A bank employee told police that Zaman had been a frequent visitor at the bank. He said he had been visiting for almost a year. He said the guards and the staff had started recognising him. He said Munir had told him that she had met Zaman over the internet. She had told him than Zaman wanted to marry her but her parents had not agreed.
He said on the day of the incident, the two were having some discussion, when Zaman told Munir to get up. When she got up, he shot her five times, killing her on the spot. One of the bullets hit an office boy Muhammad Arshad in the foot. Zaman then shot himself in the head and was taken to Jinnah Hospital.
Bilqees Bibi, mother of the deceased, told The Express Tribune that Zaman had even prepared a fake nikahnama and claimed that he had married Munir.
She said Zaman had sent his parents over to their house with the proposal but they (her parents) had turned it down.
ASP Fida Hussain of Township police said that the incident represented a security lapse. He said had the guards checked Zaman, they would have found that he was carrying a weapon. He said the guards had told police that they had stopped checking Zaman as he had visited the bank regularly and had claimed to be Munir’s husband.
The ASP said that an FIR has been registered against Zaman on a complaint by Bilqees Bibi.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2012.