THATTA, Sept 26: The Thatta police, in a surprise raid conducted on the house of a labourer, recovered Gulshan Khatti, a housewife, with torture marks on her body from a locked room in the early hours of Friday.

Hyder Khaskheli, Gulshan’s brother-in-law, had lodged an FIR with the police in which he claimed that eversince her marriage with his brother, Ghulam Mohammad, his father, Sher Mohammad, and elder brother, Riaz, had kept her in chains and subjected her to torture.

Gulshan, 23, totally shattered, told journalists that she was married to Ghulam Mohammad some four months back in exchange for his sister. She said soon after the marriage, her father-in-law attempted to criminally assault her but her hue and cry averted the situation.

When she complained about the excesses to her husband, he shamelessly advised her not to deny his father. Since then, her life had been made miserable.

The police have arrested the accused and are investigating the matter.