KASUR: The Phoolnagar police have registered a murder case against a man who allegedly tortured a minor maid to death and handed over the body to the bereaved family at Ghumankay village on Wednesday.

According to complainant Nazir, a brick kiln worker near Ghumankay, landlord Muhammad Usman of Gujranwala came to his house some five months ago and took his minor daughter Misbah Batool with him against a monthly salary worth Rs3,000. On Wednesday, Usman called him to Lahore on the pretext that Batool was seriously ill.

When he reached Lahore, he said, the man took him to a deserted place where an ambulance was already parked. The suspect handed over the body of the victim to Nazir and later escaped in a car. The complainant said he found scars of hot iron and sharp-edged weapon on the body of his daughter.

On the orders of DPO Sohaib Ashraf, the Phoolnagar police registered a murder case against the suspects including Usman.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2021

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