Mysterious Death: Husband arrested for woman’s death

HYDERABAD:

A young woman was killed in a shooting incident at her house in Qasimabad on Saturday.

Ayesha Arain, 28, was hit on the leg. Her husband, Suleman Arain, claimed that he shot accidentally when an automatic pistol fell on the floor. According to SHO Abdul Kareem Abbasi, Ayesha was already dead when she was brought to the hospital and her husband refused an autopsy and took away the body. The police became suspicious and forcefully brought the body for post-mortem, which showed that she died before being shot.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 24^th, 2013.