GUJRAT: District Police Officer (DPO) Syed Ali Mohisn told reporters on Friday they resolved the blind murder of an old woman who was found with her throat slit open on May 10 in Bakhshpura. Her daughter-in-law turned out to be involved in her assassination along with her two accomplices.

DPO Mohsin said Zahida Mahmood had been found murdered at her house in city’s Bakhshupura locality of A Division police precincts and a case was lodged against unidentified people.

He said Muneeba Ashraf, daughter-in-law of the deceased, got her mother-in-law killed, who was also her maternal aunt, for finding fault in her chores. Muneeba with kin Imran Haider and Ameen Asghar, a plumber, got killed Zahida.

Police arrested the three suspects.

Also, the Kharian Sadar police traced the blind murder of youth Khuram Shahzad who was bludgeoned to death by the unidentified people near Uttowala Upper Jhelum canal on May 4.It turns out he was killed over honour as he had alleged illicit relations with the sister of the suspects involved in his murder.

The DPO said that Khuram, of Luqman village, was riding a motorcycle when Ikram Asjad and Amjad Iqbal intercepted him in a deserted place and killed him with repeated hits of bricks. The police arrested the suspects who also confessed to their crime. The DPO announced cash and commendation certificates for the police teams.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2019