RAWALPINDI, April 4: A woman, who was shifted to the Rawalpindi General Hospital with 90 per cent burn injuries, has alleged that she was set on fire by her father-in-law.

Rubina Kauser, 30, said in her statement to police from the hospital bed that she was caught hold by her mother-in-law while her husband’s father set her on fire.

Rubina, a mother of two, is said to be in critical condition.

The police have arrested her father-in-law and started investigation into the incident.

Meanwhile, a man was shot and injured during robbery in Dheri Hassanabad while in a similar incident a house was looted in Westridge on Thursday, police said.

In the first incident, Mohammad Iyaz, a vendor, was shot and injured by three unidentified robbers who held him at gunpoint and snatched Rs1,800 from him.