KARACHI: Police failed to locate and arrest a couple who had left abandoned the body of a young woman at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Saturday morning.

However, they detained the mother-in-law and husband of 21-year-old Ayesha, who died under mysterious circumstances at a Defence house during a party.

South-SSP Syed Asad Raza said that the woman and her son had been taken into custody for questioning to ascertain the whereabouts of the missing couple who fled after dropping the body at JPMC.

Investigators had claimed that the woman attended a birthday party at a Defence Phase II house, where she died allegedly from drug overdose.

The SSP told Dawn on Sunday that no one lived in that house as the owner was based in Lahore. However, police came to know that the house was being used for holding certain events, he added.

He said that the victim’s mother-in-law and her husband told the police that they did not want any legal action.

He said that the police had traced the victim woman’s father in Okara and asked him to come here to receive the body. He was expected to arrive in Karachi on Monday (today), he added.

The police will lodge an FIR if the father wanted to initiate legal and criminal proceedings into the death of his daughter.

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2023