MANSEHRA: A local court on Tuesday stopped the burial of a woman and ordered autopsy on the body after her father moved the court blaming her in-laws for killing his daughter in Karachi and attempting to bury the body secretly here.

The Mansehra district and sessions judge ordered the Lassan Nawab police not to allow Ali Rehman to bury the body of his wife, Sidra, and arrange postmortem of the body after her father, M. Shakeel, moved the court.

Mr Shakeel informed the court that Ali Rehman and his family members had killed her daughter in Karachi and were trying to bury her body without intimating her family.

“My daughter had called me a day before her murder, suspecting that her in-laws would kill her,” said Mr Shakeel.

The body was handed over to the family after doctors performed autopsy at King Abdullah Teaching Hospital here.

The victim’s father told reporters outside the hospital’s mortuary that his son-in-law, who lived in Shafique Town of Karachi, first killed his daughter and now wanted to bury her secretly. He said that when he came to know about the development from the locals he rushed to the scene.

He said the victim was mother of six children of ages between six months to eight years and were living with a sister of her husband.

Mohammad Arshad, the assistant sub-inspector at Lassan Nawab police station, told reporters that on completion of legal formalities the body was shifted to hospital for autopsy.

He said if it was confirmed that the woman was murdered, then the local police would refer the case to the police station concerned in Karachi for lodging FIR against the suspects.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2017