BAHAWALPUR: A man killed his wife in the name of honour at Bahawalgarh village in Lodhran on Sunday.

Imran Umar, PRO to the Lodhran DPO, said Asif had suspicions about his wife and he killed her in a rush of blood.

According to the FIR No 161/22 registered under section 302 of PPC, Asif first chided his wife and later hit her head with a club which proved fatal.

Police claimed to have arrested Asif and registered a murder case against him. They sent the body for postmortem examination at the Kahrore Pucca THQ hospital.

Meanwhile, the Saddar police arrested Akbar on the charge of making a prank call to Lodhran emergency police 15 claiming that his father Muhammad Yaseen and brother Javed tried to throw acid on him and his wife Maryam. Police found out that he had a property dispute with his father and brother and complained against them to wrongly implicate him in a case.

Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2022