LAHORE: The police say the death of a housemaid which was dubbed as suicide by her parents in the Sundar area some days back, was in fact a murdere after rape.

The parents of Shama Bibi (22) had said that she ended her life by shooting herself in the temple.

She was working as housemaid at the residence of Zasheer in a private housing society , the police said.

The parents had refused to initiate legal action, asking the police to hand over the body without autopsy.

However, the police on the basis of some circumstantial evidences got conducted post-mortem and its report stated that she was raped and fired at from a considerable distance. Police have launched investigation with the perspective of a murder case.

Published in Dawn, March 10th, 2018