LARKANA, March 5: Mukhtiar Ali Panhwar, father of Sanam 19, has alleged that her daughter was tortured to death and brushed aside the impression that she had committed suicide.

Talking to Dawn on Monday Panhwar, a driver working with the agriculture department, said that Manzoor Ali Jhatyal, the father-in-law of his daughter informed him that Sanam had committed suicide on March 2.

He said that he saw his daughter’s body in the casualty department of Chandka Medical College Hospital and found marks of torture.

He said Manzoor Jhatyal had lodged a report with the Dari police station claiming that she had committed suicide.

He said that his mother had also told him about the torture signs on the neck, thigh, nails and feet of Sanam while giving a final bath before burial.

How could she fire at the lower tip of her left ear with the pistol while she was right-handed.

Her father-in-law, he alleged, had aided and abetted in the crime and to hush up the matter, he had immediately termed it a suicide case.

The dispute between Sanam and the family members began over a carpet that her husband brought from Dubai where he works, Mukhtair said.

He approached the police for registering a murder FIR against Imtiaz Ali (the husband of the deceased), Manzoor Ali and Nazar Hussain alias Sadam after Sanam's burial late on Sunday night.

The Dari police had registered the FIR at about 11.45 pm (Sunday night) under section 302, 114 and 34 PPC and arrested Imtiaz Ali while two others were still at large.

Imtiaz Ali Jhatyal, Sanam’s husband told journalists that her wife had committed suicide.

While shifting her body to the hospital she might have received scratches at her feet and nail.