ISLAMABAD: A 19-year-old girl was abducted and poisoned after she refused a marriage proposal, police sources said.

The victim was living in Golra with her family. Her father had rented out the ground floor of his home to a man who sent a marriage proposal to her for his adopted son, which was refused.

The victim was working in a school in E-11. After the proposal was refused, the man allegedly abducted her and took her to Jhang. Police said the girl’s father asked the man to release his daughter, but he denied that she was with him.

Several months later, the victim’s father was approached by Jhang police, who told him that his daughter had been found murdered.

When the police were approached, they revealed that the girl was brought to Jhang by a man later identified as the complainant’s tenant.

It was then disclosed that she had been poisoned. When the complainant approached Golra police to lodge an application against the tenant on August 28, they took nearly a week to register the case.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2015

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