JHANG, July 6: A girl was poisoned to death by her brother over a property dispute in Satellite Town on Saturday.

Muhammad Habit stated in the FIR that his daughter Muskrat Bibi was scheduled to be married on Sunday. She owned a residential plot in Satellite

Town which his son Anwar wanted to get it transferred to his name before his sister’s marriage. Muskrat Bibi was not willing to oblige her brother.

On Saturday, a day before Muskrat’s marriage, Anwar along with his accomplices Halide and Teri came to the house. Halide and Teri caught hold of the screaming girl and An war injected poison into her body.

Her neighbors took her to the hospital where she expired. The autopsy confirmed poison as the cause of death. Sadder Hang police have registered a murder case.

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