TAXILA: A man was tortured to death in village Bawra near Khor in limits of Pindigheb police station on Sunday.

The investigating officer Munawar Khan while quoting the family of the victim said that a man with the help of his son tied him with a tractor and dragged him in the fields till he breathed his lost and threw his body in the fields and fled .

The IO while quoting Sarfaraz Khan, the father of the victim, said the motive behind the murder was honour as the murderer suspected that Imran had illicit relations with his wife.

Meanwhile, Rescue 1122 has retrieved the body of a man who drowned in Ghazi-Barotha water channel.

According to Amir Nawaz, spokesman for the district emergency services, 45-year-old Mohammad Fazal, a native of village Bhebodi of Hazro drowned accidentally in the channel.

Separately, an eleven-year-old girl was abducted from outside her house in the limits of Wah Saddar police station on Sunday.

Mohammad Aslam reported to police that his 11-year-old daughter went out of the house to get some food stuff from the shop located in the street but was abducted by unknown person.

Police have registered an abduction case and launched investigation.

Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2022