Questionable affairs: Two women denied bail in murder case
Deceased woman was set on fire and died 20 days later.
“She said she had seen their immoral activities several times and confronted Shahid but he told her to mind her own business,” Nadeem said. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
An additional district and sessions judge on Friday dismissed bail petitions of two women accused of killing a third by setting her on fire after she allegedly accused her husband of having illicit relations with his step-mother, one of the women accused of killing her.
Muhammad Nadeem, brother of deceased Nasreen Bibi, told The Express Tribune that Nasreen’s father-in-law had married a second time after his first wife passed away. He said Nasreen had told their father that her husband Muhammad Shahid had developed illicit relations with his step-mother Tahira Bibi, 26.
“She said she had seen their immoral activities several times and confronted Shahid but he told her to mind her own business,” Nadeem said.
He said on May 17, Nasreen and Tahira quarrelled after which the latter called her sister Sajida Bibi and both beat up Nasreen.
Nadeem said Nasreen phoned them and when they reached there she was lying on the floor screaming in a badly burnt state. She was hospitalised at Jinnah and Mayo hospitals for nearly 20 days but died on June 5.
Nadeem said Nasreen told them that she was on the ground floor of the house on May 17 when she was severely beaten by Tahira and Sajida. Later, her husband Shahid, Tahira and Sajida came to her room on the first floor and tried to strangle her. Tahira set her ablaze and all three left after locking the door, Nadeem said his deceased sister had told him.
Before her death Nasreen registered a case against her husband, as well as Tahira and Sajida under Section 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) at Liaquatabad police station.
On Friday, Tahira and Sajida submitted in their bail petitions that they were falsely implicated in the case. Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, the counsel for the complainant, said there was substantial evidence against the accused.
The court rejected the bail applications of both women who had earlier been on pre-arrest bail.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2014.
An additional district and sessions judge on Friday dismissed bail petitions of two women accused of killing a third by setting her on fire after she allegedly accused her husband of having illicit relations with his step-mother, one of the women accused of killing her.
Muhammad Nadeem, brother of deceased Nasreen Bibi, told The Express Tribune that Nasreen’s father-in-law had married a second time after his first wife passed away. He said Nasreen had told their father that her husband Muhammad Shahid had developed illicit relations with his step-mother Tahira Bibi, 26.
“She said she had seen their immoral activities several times and confronted Shahid but he told her to mind her own business,” Nadeem said.
He said on May 17, Nasreen and Tahira quarrelled after which the latter called her sister Sajida Bibi and both beat up Nasreen.
Nadeem said Nasreen phoned them and when they reached there she was lying on the floor screaming in a badly burnt state. She was hospitalised at Jinnah and Mayo hospitals for nearly 20 days but died on June 5.
Nadeem said Nasreen told them that she was on the ground floor of the house on May 17 when she was severely beaten by Tahira and Sajida. Later, her husband Shahid, Tahira and Sajida came to her room on the first floor and tried to strangle her. Tahira set her ablaze and all three left after locking the door, Nadeem said his deceased sister had told him.
Before her death Nasreen registered a case against her husband, as well as Tahira and Sajida under Section 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) at Liaquatabad police station.
On Friday, Tahira and Sajida submitted in their bail petitions that they were falsely implicated in the case. Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, the counsel for the complainant, said there was substantial evidence against the accused.
The court rejected the bail applications of both women who had earlier been on pre-arrest bail.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2014.