KARACHI, Jan 23: A young woman was found murdered in her apartment at Taj Complex on M. A. Jinnah Road on Thursday.

Saima, aged 28, a schoolteacher, was found dead with her throat slit in the drawing room of her 12th floor apartment at Taj Complex.

Police said at the time of the incident Saima’s daughter was at her grandmother’s apartment in the same building, and Saima’s husband, Irfan, was away at work.

Police said Saima gave tuition to small children at her house. When one of her students knocked at the door of her apartment on Thursday, there was no response from inside. Then he went to the grandmother’s (Saima’s mother-in-law) apartment, where he told Saima’s mother-in-law that Ms Saima was not opening the door. In fact the door was locked from the outside.

Saima’s mother-in-law came to her daughter-in-law’s apartment and opened the door and found her daughter-in-law murdered in the drawing room.

Quoting neighbours, a senior police officer told this reporter that Saima did not open the door without confirming who was outside, which showed that she knew the person who came inside her apartment and probably killed her.

When asked about bandits’ involvement in the killing, police said no valuable was missing from the house, but a few things were lying upside down, which was possibly done to make it look like a robbery, he said.

The body was sent to Civil Hospital for post-mortem.

ARRESTED: Police claimed to have arrested a notorious criminal in Chakiwara late Wednesday night.