KARACHI: An 18-year-old woman died in her parents’ residence in Surjani Town allegedly due to injuries inflicted on her by her husband.

Her body was taken to hospital from where her family took it away for burial without a post-mortem examination, police said.

Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told Dawn that the body of a woman, identified as Misbah Shaheryar, 18, was brought to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Tuesday from Saiful Marri Goth in Surjani Town.

The body bore marks of injuries on the head and other parts. However, the family did not allow doctors to conduct the post-mortem examination to ascertain the exact cause of death and took away the body for burial in the presence of police.

Victim’s brother says her in-laws demanded motorcycle in dowry; police surgeon confirms injury marks on body, says family did not allow autopsy

The deceased’s brother Usman told media that her elder sister Misbah had married Shaheryar with her own free will one week before Ramazan this year. However, she was allegedly tortured by her in-laws because her family was unable to fulfil their demand of a motorcycle in the dowry.

Surjani SHO Sohail Khaskheli told Dawn that it was a ‘love-marriage’. She was living with her husband Shaheryar in a Malir locality. However, she developed differences with her husband and returned recently to her parents’ home, where she died on Tuesday.

The police officer said the doctors did not tell the police about the cause of death.

The brother claimed that soon after the marriage, the husband used to beat his sister when she learnt that he had already married two women and did not do any work.

The police said the suspect had claimed that he had a job in police, but it was untrue.

Initially, the husband had demanded a motorcycle in the dowry, but the woman’s family could not arrange it, since they were poor. The girl’s father had already passed away, the brother added.

On Saturday, his sister was ‘severely’ beaten by her husband and she came to their house in Surjani Town. He said there were torture marks on her head. Besides, his female relatives also told them that there were burn injuries on her private parts caused by burning wood.

The grief-stricken brother added that they had approached the Surjani police but they did not register an FIR, saying that the case pertained to the Malir district. He alleged that the suspect was still threatening them of dire consequences.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2026