MINGORA: A married woman was murdered allegedly in the name of honour in Biyakan village of Matta tehsil late on Sunday evening.

According to Matta police, a resident of Biyakan village, reported to police station that his daughter, 24, was murdered inside her in-laws’ house.

SHO Bakht Zada said that the complainant claimed that his son-in-law, who works abroad, murdered his wife with the help of his friends after accusing her of having illicit affair.

The police officer said that woman’s father told police that a rift between his daughter and her husband emerged after a man showed fake photos of the woman to her husband in Saudi Arabia. “Later on the man who showed the fake photos was also found dead, and the accused and his wife were nominated in the murder case, and were under investigation,” said SHO Bakht Zada.

The police, which termed the murder as caused by a domestic dispute, said that they had filed a murder case against four people, including the deceased’s husband, and his three friends, and were searching for the culprits.

The murdered woman left behind four children.

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2017