In a shocking incident, a pregnant woman was allegedly murdered by her mother-in-law, who along with three of her associates cut her body into dozens of pieces and then dumped it in a drain in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said. said on Sunday.
The incident took place last week in Daska in Sialkot district, about 100 km from Lahore.
Police arrested four suspects, including mother-in-law Sughran Bibi, her daughter Yasmin, her grandson Hamza and distant relative Navid.
Zara Qadir, who was around 20, went missing last week. Later, the police found the chopped body of a woman, identified as Zara, in three sacks.
Zara, the daughter of a police officer, married Qadir Ahmed four years ago and the couple had a three-year-old son. After marriage, Zara went to Saudi Arabia to join her husband who works there. She returned to Pakistan a few months ago.
Senior police officer Umar Farooq told reporters on Sunday that the suspects had confessed to killing Zara and dismembering her body.
“In her confessional statement, Sughran Bibi said that she suspected Zara of allegedly practicing ‘witchcraft’. Additionally, her son Qadir had started sending money directly to Zara in her bank instead of through his mother. ” “Four suspects suffocated Zara with a pillow while she was sleeping. They then burnt her face, cut her body into dozens of pieces and threw them in three sacks in a drain,” the police officer said. ,
Farooq said, “On the statement of Zara’s father that he suspected Sugran as she had claimed that she had eloped with her lover after she went missing, we interrogated her (Sugran) who confessed to the crime. Took.”
He said that Sugharan was also the sister of Zara’s father.
He said, “This is a case of extreme jealousy because the mother-in-law and her daughter not only killed Zara but also cut her body into pieces in hatred,” and Sughran and Yasmin were of the view that it was because of Zara’s well-being. That Qadir was playing into his hands and ignoring them.
A case of murder has been registered against the suspects.
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