SWABI: The police on Tuesday recovered a 40-year-old woman from the yearlong captivity of her four brothers, and also arrested three of them.

Talking to mediapersons after the woman’s recovery, district police officer Mohammad Shoaib said the victim, a mother of two, was kept in a room with no electricity and chained in her legs and around neck.

He said the local community members informed the police about the incarceration of the woman, after which, a raid was conducted on the house.

Swabi city SHO Ajab Durrani said when the police raided the house they found that the woman was fastened with chains hooked with a ventilator.

She was chained for wanting to do job

However, he said the woman could move about the room.

The woman had filed a case in the family court seeking divorce from her husband, and the case was adjudged in her favour.

Afterwards, she wanted to do a job in a clinic but his brothers did not allow her to do so and kept her confined in a room. She has a 10-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son, SHO Durrani said.

The woman told the police that her brothers might kill her. The police presented the woman in a court, and the judge sent her to Darul Aman in Mardan.

In another development, a man along with his brothers allegedly killed his wife and mother-in-law and injured an aunt inside their house in Swatian area over a petty dispute, DSP Topi Iftikhar Ahmad Khan said.

The main accused along with his wife was living in her parents’ house, Topi SHO Jawad Khan said, adding an argument between him and his mother-in-law over who will pay the power bill led to the double murder.

The SHO said an FIR had been registered against the main accused, Shiraz Khan, and his brothers, Ijaz Khan and Akhtar Khan.

Separately, rivals killed a secondary schoolteacher and his cousin in Parmuli village of Razaar tehsil on Tuesday, DSP Pasham Gul Khan said.

He said the cause of the incident was an old enmity, adding earlier the assailants had also killed the teacher’s father.

The DSP said teacher Asad Zaman and his cousin, Fakhar Zaman were on way home when they were targeted by their rivals. The Kalu Khan police registered an FIR.

Also in the day, a man identified as Ishtiaq Khan drowned in the Indus River.

Published in Dawn, July 28th, 2021