SUKKUR: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a man who throttled his wife to death on April 28 and buried her in a graveyard along Sindh Wah within the limits of New Faujdari police station in Shikarpur.

According to police, the SHO of New Faujdari police station received secret information that a man, Murtaza Shah, had strangled his wife Bakhtawar for honour in Bhittai Colony and buried her somewhere.

They said that when Shikarpur SSP Irfan Ali Samoo was informed about it, he formed a raiding team consisted of the DSP and SHOs and tasked them to arrest the alleged killer.

The SSP said the police team raided different places and arrested the suspect Murtaza Shah and locked him up at the area police station.

He claimed that the suspect had confessed during preliminary investigation that he had throttled his wife to death in the name of honour and buried her in the graveyard along Sindh Wah.

After post mortem, a case of murder would be registered and further legal action would be taken, the SSP said.

Sources said the Shikarpur police had exhumed the body and shifted it to a hospital for the post mortem examination.

They said the suspected killer had buried the body without giving it ghusl and wrapping in burial shroud.

the victim’s father said that she was subjected to severe torture by her husband and in-laws.

Published in Dawn, May 2nd, 2024