September 16, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 15, 1429

KARACHI, Sept 15: Two people, including a young woman, were killed on Monday in separate acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.

Sohrab Goth police said that a 23-year-old woman was shot dead by her husband who was arrested immediately after the incident.

The station-house officer, Inspector Ijaz Rajpar, told Dawn that Mohammed Hashim, owner of a bakery and milk shop at Lasi Goth, had married Saira, daughter of Jamrood Khan, two years ago. He said that the woman, who had married the suspect of her free will, had moved to her parents’ house at Lasi Goth two and half months ago after the couple became estranged with one another.

The SHO said that Hashim came to the house of his in-laws to take his estranged wife back. “The suspect opened fire on the victim when she refused to go with him,” he added.Inspector Rajpar said that the suspect tried to flee, but a police party patrolling the area arrested him and seized an unlicensed pistol from his possession.

He said that the victim’s father, Jamrood Khan, lodged an FIR (545/08) against the suspect under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code for murdering his daughter.

The deceased woman, who received multiple bullet wounds, died instantly and her body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.

Hospital sources said the victim had received six bullets, four of them in the upper torso, from a very close range as most of the bullets went through her body.

Guard strangled

A 50-year-old guard of a private security company was strangled at his house in Landhi.

Police said that the victim was living at a rented house (28/10) at 5-C area with his two wives.

They said that four armed men barged into his house in the small hours of Monday and held the inmates hostage at gunpoint.

Later, the police said, the intruders took the victim to a room, trussed him up and strangled him to death.

The police said the victim’s wives contacted his younger brother, Mohammed Amir, a resident of Malir Colony, and informed him about the incident.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. Sources in the medico-legal department confirmed that the man died due to strangulation.

A case (FIR 199/08) has been lodged under Sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code against unknown culprits for the murder of his brother.

The police said that the man had no child from his first wife and he had his second marriage four years ago. He had a three-year-old son from his second wife.

Dacoits held

The Steel Town police arrested five suspected dacoits and recovered arms and looted goods from them.

The police said that a police party, acting on a tip-off, reached the Wireless Gate and arrested the suspects after a brief encounter. The suspects had been identified as Mohammed Ali, Yahya Khan, Iqbal Zikria and Sher Mohammed. The police recovered a repeater gun, two TT pistols, two magazines, live bullets and looted items, including cash and cellphones.