KARACHI: A man stabbed to death his wife and then attempted to what police described as cook her body parts in a metal pot in their residence in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Wednesday, police said.

The Mobina Town police recovered body parts of Nargis, who was in her mid-30s, in the pot, while her husband managed to escape.

East SSP Syed Abdul Rahim Sherazi said suspect Ashiq, was a watchman at a private school and lived there along with his wife and six children.

The suspect killed his wife and later cooked her body parts in a cauldron, the SSP said, adding that couple’s daughter, who is around 16, narrated this terrifying incident to the police.

Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said that the body was brought to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi “with history of being cooked, allegedly”.

“A medical examination showed that the woman’s body pieces were cut before being thrown in the cauldron. Her left leg was cleanly separated at knee joint as was left forearm at the elbow,” she said, adding: “Samples from the body collected to rule out intoxication and for histopathology.”

Dr Syed said she saw the body and was ‘shocked’ as it was one of the most terrible cases of her medico-legal career.

Published in Dawn, July 14th, 2022