KARACHI: The police on Tuesday arrested a man and his friend for alleged murder of his wife in Mehmoodabad, officials said.

They said Areeba in her 20s and Shamshad got separated from their spouses and married three months ago.

Relations of the couple became strained a month ago and the deceased woman had also informed her family about this.

The area police said that the mother of the victim had told the police that she had received a call from her son-in-law in the morning, telling her about suicide of her daughter.

When she rushed to Areeba’s house, she found her body lying on the bed with a scarf around her neck. The husband claimed that she had committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan.

The police inspected the crime scene on the request of the victim’s parents who claimed that the woman had been murdered by her husband.

The police took the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The Baloch Colony police arrested Areeba’s husband and his friend following registration of an FIR on the complaint of the victim’s mother.

Media man falls to death

A news producer of a private news channel died after falling from the third floor of his apartment building in North Nazimabad.

The area police said Khurram Akbar Khan in his 40s fell from the third floor when he lost his balance while fixing an overhead water tank of the apartment.

Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan SHO Inspector Imdad Ali Khawaja said that the deceased was a resident of an apartment in Block J and his father told law enforcers that he died accidentally when he fell down from the third floor after losing balance while mending an overhead water tank.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2020