Man held for burning wife to death

Published August 18, 2003

TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 17: Kamalia police on Sunday arrested a man along with his mother on the charge of burning to death his wife in Zeeshan Colony.

Ishrat Perveen of Sitara Colony, Toba Tek Singh, was married to Qasim Ali of Kamalia. The husband suspected that her wife had bad character. The couple often quarrelled with each other over the issue which forced the girl to live with her parents’. However, the parents sent her back to her husband’s house after reconciliation. On Friday, Qasim and her mother allegedly set on fire Perveen. She was rushed to Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, in critical condition where she died on Saturday.

Police arrested both the man and his mother on the report of mother of the deceased, Perveen Akhtar. However, the accused claimed that Perveen committed suicide.

A Kamalia police official said that a local judicial magistrate issued physical remand of accused Qasim while his mother was shifted to jail on judicial remand.

MURDERED: Two persons were murdered on Sunday in different incidents in the district.

Nadeem Akram killed Muhammad Suhail over an old enmity at Chak 413-JB.

The body of an unidentified man, aged around 45, was recovered from a deserted place near the textile mills of the district nazim.

City police have registered a case against unknown killer(s).

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