CHARSADDA: A man and a woman were shot dead in the name of honour in Baakra locality of Shabqaddar tehsil here on Monday.

Police arrested the father-in-law and brother-in-law of the woman for the crime. The suspects confessed to their crime. The father-in-law of the slain woman told police that he and his son were informed about the presence of a stranger in the house of his daughter-in-law.

He said that they went there and found the stranger, who was later identified as a resident of Bakhshi Pull Peshawar, and his daughter-in-law in compromising condition.

He said that he and his son killed both of them on the spot. He said that the husband of his daughter-in-law was working as daily wager in Saudi Arabia.

The bodies of both the deceased were handed over to their relatives after conducting their postmortem in a local hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2022