KASUR: The Saddar police on Friday registered a case against unidentified people after they found the bodies of a young man and a girl hanged with a tree near Kasur bypass a day earlier.

Police recovered the bodies of the two persons and their medical reports suggested no violence marks. They were identified as Hasnain Ali and Amna Bibi, both residents of Ichhra, Lahore.

Police said Ali was a rickshaw driver and his body was identified through his CNIC while the woman was identified by the family of Ali.

Muhammad Iqbal, the father of Amna Bibi who belonged to Kasur’s Chunian tehsil, had a case registered with the Saddar police.

According to the complainant, his daughter Amna, 16, was residing with his brother Dilshad and his family and worked as domestic help to earn livelihood in Lahore.

The FIR also said Hasnain, 23, a resident of Ittehad Colony, and Amna Bibi had gone out together without the knowledge of their families who desperately searched for them.

Meanwhile, the Kasur police informed them about the recovery of the bodies of the two who were found hanged with a tree. Police handed over the bodies to the families after legal formalities.

ASP Zubair Nazir of Saddar Circle said doctors found no torture marks on the bodies of the deceased. He said the police had yet to receive the autopsy reports. He said the exact cause of the death would be known after the reports of the Punjab Forensic Laboratory that had collected evidence, including pictures and thumb impressions from the crime scene.

He said the police had also collected data of the call record of both the deceased.

ACCIDENTS: A man and his wife died when their car collided with a stationary truck near Talwandi village on Kasur-Deepalpur Road.

Police said Arsalan and his wife, residents of Okara, were on their way to Kasur when their car ran into the truck. Arsalan died on the spot while his wife succumbed to her injuries on way to hospital. The couple was taken out of the car after cutting its body.

A number of people gathered at the scene and a video that went viral on social media showed them criticising Koraysial patrol police who were said to have parked the truck on the roadside for the last couple of days.

Police sent the bodies to the THQ hospital of Chunian for autopsy.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2018