Lahore:
In a stunning incident, a pregnant girl was killed allegedly by her mother-in-law who alongside together with her three accomplices chopped her physique in dozens of items earlier than dumping it in a drain within the Punjab province of Pakistan, police mentioned on Sunday.
The incident came about final week in Daska, Sialkot district, some 100 km from Lahore.
Police arrested 4 suspects together with the mother-in-law Sughran Bibi, her daughter Yasmin, her grandson Hamza and distant relative Navid.
Zara Qadir, who was in her 20s, went lacking final week. Later police discovered the chopped physique of a lady in three sacks which was recognized as Zara.
Zara, the daughter of a police officer, married Qadir Ahmad 4 years in the past and the couple had a three-year-old son. Zara after marriage had gone to Saudi Arabia to her husband who works there. A couple of months in the past, she had returned to Pakistan.
Senior police officer Omar Farooq instructed reporters on Sunday that the suspects confessed to having killed and dismembered the physique of Zara.
“In her confessional assertion, Sughran Bibi mentioned that she suspected Zara of allegedly practising ‘witchcraft’. Apart from, her son Qadir had began sending cash on to Zara in her financial institution as an alternative to his mom.” “The 4 suspects smothered Zara with a pillow whereas she was asleep. After that they burnt her face and chopped off her physique into dozens of items earlier than dumping it in a drain in three sacks,” the police officer mentioned and added Zara was additionally pregnant.
“On Zara’s father’s assertion that he suspected Sughran for claiming that she had run away together with her lover upon her disappearance, we interrogated her (Sughran) who confessed to her crime,” Farooq mentioned.
He mentioned Sughran was additionally the sister of Zara’s father.
“It is a case of utmost jealousy because the mother-in-law and her daughter not solely killed Zara however in chilly blood dismembered her physique into items in hatred,” he mentioned and Sughran and Yasmin had been of the view that due to Zara’s beauty Qadir was enjoying into her arms and ignoring them.
A homicide case has been registered in opposition to the suspects.
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