HYDERABAD, April 13: A widow, Zahida Baladi, said that she might be killed on the pretext of Karo-kari by her in-laws and that the police did not help her when she went to the B-Section police, Latifabad.

The woman told journalists at the press club on Saturday that her husband, Raza Ali, had died three months back. He had served in the General Post Office, Hyderabad.

She claimed that her husband’s brothers — Mazhar Ali, Akhtar Ali, and Zulfiqar Ali — wanted to displace her from her house.

She said that they had issued threats of killing her on the pretext of Karo-kari.

She claimed that her husband had purchased a rickshaw — her only source of income — a TV, a refrigerator, and other household items but her in-laws had deprived her of all these items.

She accused her in-laws of subjecting her to violence on several occasions.

She claimed that on Friday she was tortured and her in-laws tried to expel her from the house but her neighbours had rescued her.

She sought police help as her in-laws had occupied her house, and added that her in-laws were trying to forge documents so that they could receive her dead husband’s pension.