VEHARI: A woman allegedly shot her husband dead in connivance with her young daughter for refusing to divorce her at Chak 44/ WB, in Thingi police limits, some 25km from here on Sunday.

As per the police, Kulsoom Bibi (35), wife of a labourer, Muhammad Hussain (40), had a clash with her husband a couple of days back.

On Sunday, when Hussain was at his home, Kulsoom opened fire on him with his pistol, leaving him dead on the spot and fled away, the police said.

Thingi Station House Officer (SHO) Ashraf Gill said quoting relatives of the deceased that Kulsoom wanted to get divorce from her husband who had been refusing to do so and she planned his murder with the help of her daughter Shumayla (18).

The SHO said the police arrested the suspect and her daughter after registering a case against them under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Muhammad Yar, a cousin of the deceased, and started investigations.

The body of Hussain was handed over to his family after an autopsy conducted at the district headquarters hospital.

Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2022