SIALKOT: The four suspects, including a woman, arrested for beheading a newly-wed couple for contracting love marriage at Satrah village of Daska tehsil on Sunday confessed committing the heinous crime, according to police.

The suspects -- Ghulam Rasul (slain girl’s grandfather), Shamshad (her uncle), Bashiran Bib (her mother) and Iqbal Hassan (her uncle) – told police the couple was punished for “tarnishing the family honour” and that they felt no remorse over killing them.

Sajjad Ahmed (27) and Mafia Bibi (23) had contracted love marriage on June 18. Both were beheaded allegedly by the girls’ parents and relatives after being kidnapped from their house at Hassanabad village.

Daska Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Engineer Zahid Hussain told newsmen police teams were raiding various places for early arrest of the prime suspect, Dilshad, who is father of the slain girl.

An FIR (No 269/2014) was lodged at Satrah police station under sections 148, 149, 302 of the PPC and Section 7 of Anti Terrorism Act against seven people, five of them nominated as suspects.

On June 28, 2014 an Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) had given a week-long physical remand of the suspects to Daska police till July 4, 2014.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2014