SANGHAR: Woman killed by relatives

Published December 19, 2006

SANGHAR, Dec 18: A woman who had married of her own free will much to the anger of her parents and community members two year ago was killed by her close relatives in Bahadur Kaloi village near Shahdadpur on Sunday night.

Police registered a case against five men on the complaint of late Ms Husna’s husband Ashraf Lakho stating that his wife’s relatives Dildar, Anwar, Amir Bux and two unidentified men barged into his house and opened fired on his wife. She was rushed to taluka hospital where she died of fatal wounds.

Mr Lakho said that they had married two years ago in court against the wishes of his wife’s parents and relatives who had been threatening them since then.

ARRESTED: Police on Monday arrested Hasno Shar on charges of burning a man alive after snatching Rs11,000 from him.

The victim Sher Mohammad Shar was rushed to hospital where he told police before dying that he was on his way home after selling buffalos in Kandiari when Hasno Shar and another man pulled over their car near him forcing him to stop.

They got out, snatched Rs11,000 from him and then set him ablaze after dousing him in kerosene oil. The victim was shifted to the burns ward of Liaquat University Hospital of Hyderabad where he died on Monday.

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