Heated argument: Boy arrested for killing elderly woman

BHALWAL:

Police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a 14-year-old boy by for killing a woman in Bhalwal.

A police spokesman said the decapitated body of an 86-year-old woman was found from a field on Sunday. He said the woman was later identified as Sughraan Bibi, a retired school teacher. City SHO Akhtar Nawaz said the boy had told them that the woman had asked him for a ride when he was returning from a market. He said on the way, the two had an argument. The SHO said the woman apparently abused the boy.

He said the boy then beat her and decapitated her with a fodder cleaver. He said he had then left her body in the fields and fled.

The SHO said the boy had been arrested in a raid and had confessed to killing the woman. He said the cleaver was also seized by police in the raid. He said he would be presented before a judicial magistrate on Thursday (today).

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2015.