KARACHI: Newly-wed couple found dead

Published September 25, 2005

KARACHI, Sept 24: A newly-married couple was killed at their residence in Gulberg by unidentified people. Qari Abdur Razzak, 45, and Sajida, 35, were found in a pool of blood at their residence in Block 11, Qabaili Colony, in Gulberg police limits. The bodies were sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for autopsy.

Initial investigations showed that Sajida was the former wife of Ibrahim, a friend of Razzak. Ibrahim was murdered some two years back.

Qari Abdur Razzak proposed Sajida some days back, on which she accepted the proposal and they got married a week back.

Police said that brothers of Sajida were not happy with the marriage of their sister and they had expressed anger over the decision. Police suspected the brothers of Sajida behind the double-murder.

A case was registered and the police have started looking for the two brothers of Sajida.

RAPE: Police have arrested two suspects for allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting a woman in Samanabad on Friday night.

The woman, a resident of Gulistan-i-Jauhar, who is running a school, said she was assaulted by two policemen and her brother-in-law, who was also a policeman.

The police arrested Nadeem and Minhaj and are looking for the other two suspects.

The woman said a money dispute was lingering on between her nephew Ahmed Ali and brother-in-law Nadeem. Due to the dispute, the family environment was tense.

Being a social worker, she interfered into the matter to get it solved. She pressured Nadeem to pay back Rs25,000 and a cellphone, borrowed from Ahmed Ali.

On Friday, Nadeem wanted the woman to see him as he wanted to talk on the matter to solve it. Nadeem and Minhaj came to pick her up. Minhaj, a policeman, is also the husband of her other younger sister, so she did not feel frightened going along with them.

Later, she alleged that she was criminally assaulted by them but was not in a state to resist. She said she wanted to resist but did not know what had happened to her.

After she was allowed to go, she went straight to her home and on Friday morning went to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical examination and got a case registered in Samanabad police station.

Since the case was registered, the woman, who was divorced by her husband some years back, had been receiving threatening calls.

She appealed to the government that she be provided security as her life and the lives of her son and daughter were in danger.

The SSP Investigation, Mir Zubair Mehmood, said the police had arrested two suspects and had started interrogating them.

“We have also started to record the witness accounts of those individuals. We are collecting as much circumstantial and concrete evidence as we can,” he added.

He said the report of semen testing was awaited, which would help advance the investigation. However, the preliminary medical report stated that there were no bruises or marks of injury on the body. At this stage of investigation, it was premature to state anything substantial, he viewed.

CARJACKER KILLED: An alleged carjacker was gunned down in what police claimed to be an encounter in Gulistan-i-Jauhar here on Saturday.

Police said a car (AHJ-078) was snatched at gunpoint in Bahadurabad. The police were put on alert and the car was spotted by the Anti-Car Lifting Cell near Kamran Chowrangi in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The police signalled the driver to stop, instead he accelerated the car firing at the police.

The police returned the fire, resulting in the death of the driver, who turned out to be a notorious carjacker Rab Nawaz Bugti. A pistol was also recovered from him.

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