SUKKUR, April 26: The Sukkur police on Thursday began investigating into the suicide case in which a woman, along with her daughter, had allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the River Indus on Sunday.

The case turned complicated after the woman’s husband, Zulfiqar Phul, lodged a complaint with the Rohri police station claiming that his wife, Ms Farzana, and daughter, Ramsha, had not committed suicide but had been the victims of a kidnapping.

Accusing Dr Masroor and an unspecified number of accomplices of kidnapping his wife and daughter, the man said that his wife had gone to the tomb of Sadaruddin Badshah along with his five- year-old daughter at the time of the incident.

Officials of the police in Rohri told this correspondent that their preliminary investigation had revealed that Farzana, along with her daughter, had been living with her father, Ghulam Hyder, near the Latif Park in Old Sukkur.

She, they said, had visited the Mazar last Sunday along with a friend of hers, Azra, but had left the Mazar with a man in his car. Before leaving, they said, she had left a “suicide note” under a brick on Landsdown Bridge, saying she was committing suicide because her husband wanted her to get involved in immoral acts.

Officials said that the Rohri police had registered an FIR on the basis of the suicide note.

The police had earlier said that two police constables and a Munshi of toll tax check-point had saw her jumping into the Indus River.

Sources said that the police was trying to trace Azra and Farzana’s father, Ghulam Hyder, who are still missing.

Police further claimed that Farzana had been residing with her parents after quarrelling on several issues with her husband, Zulfiqar Phul.