Pleading Guilty: Woman, lover sentenced to death

A woman called two men including her lover to her house and killed her husband.

BAHAWALPUR: An additional district and sessions judge in Liaquatpur sentenced a woman and a man to death for killing her husband.

According to the prosecutor, Allah Bakhsh, a resident of Chak 6 Abbasia, had registered a case with the Liaqatpur police on January 2, 2013 saying that his niece Zahoor Bibi, who was married to Muhammad Ismail, had had an illicit relationship with Saeed Ahmed.

He said she had called two men, including her lover, to her house and killed her husband. On Thursday, police said, Zahoor Bibi and her lover pled guilty.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 13^th, 2013.