RAWALPINDI: A girl student’s body was found hanging from the ceiling of her house in Awan Town Naseerabad on Friday.

After the girl’s brother informed the emergency police that his sister, 24, had committed suicide, the police duty officer reached the spot and removed the body to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.

He told the police that his sister, a university student, was found hanging from the ceiling fan at 4:30 a.m. She had died, the complainant said in his statement. “When I woke up in the morning, I saw the body of my sister hanging from the ceiling fan,” the victim’s brother told the police.

The police after collecting forensic evidence shifted her body to the hospital for postmortem.

The police said that the real circumstances, in which the incident happened, will be known after the forensic report is received.

Meanwhile, A police official, allegedly involved in torturing a motorcycle mechanic in Dhamial area was suspended and departmental action was also initiated against him.

A police spokesman said that SSP Operations Malik Tariq Mahboob took notice of the incident of violence against a motorcycle mechanic in the Dhamyal area, the constable involved in the incident has been suspended, and departmental action is also being taken.

The case of the incident has been registered at the Dhamyal police station. The accused will be arrested and brought to justice, SSP Operations Malik Tariq Mahboob said, and violence against any citizen will not be tolerated.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2026