LAHORE: The police made a breakthrough in the kidnap case of the wife and 19-year-old daughter of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) when the investigation found that he himself was the killer of both women but had registered a case of their kidnap.
DSP Usman Haider Gujjar was the head of the Kahna police circle (investigation) when he registered the case about two months back, saying that his wife and daughter were missing and they had most probably been kidnapped.
SP Ayyaz Hussain, who headed by Model Town Division investigation team, said DSP Gujjar had lodged the kidnap case with the Barki Police Station against unidentified kidnappers and kept on posing as ‘a desperate victim’ being head of the family.
About a month back, Tehmina Shaukat, the sister of DSP’s wife Samia, had filed a complaint with Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, accusing her brother-in-law of domestic abuse, murder of her sister and threats to silence his in-laws. The woman had alleged that the DSP had ‘killed his wife’ and had either ‘hidden or forcibly confined his daughter’. She had accused the police department of protecting its officer and that she was threatened by the officers to remain silent or she would be killed in a fake encounter if she pursued the case of her sister.
Police resolve the two months old ‘kidnap case’ of two women; DSP’s sister-in-law had appealed to CM for help, informing her of police threats for pursuing case
According to SP Ayyaz Hussain, “When we observed that the mystery surrounding the kidnap of the both women was deepening with every passing day, we decided to investigate it on some other possible leads/aspects.”
SP Hussain said the police obtained the call data record of the mobile phones used by the DSP as the investigating officers considered him a suspect.
The results of the CDR appeared to be a first hope for the police to resolve the mystery case, prompting them to keep the DSP under observation.
The SP said it was shocking for them to observe that DSP Gujjar continued to behave normally as he kept on discharging his official assignments as if he had done nothing.
“We managed to seize his official police van (double cabin), launched a vigorous search and removed the leather sheets of the passenger seats,” Ayyaz Hussain said.
It shocked the investigators that the inner parts (foam) of the seats had blood stains and this lead played a key role in resolving the case. Similarly, a tissue paper recovered from his residence also contained some blood stains, the SP said, adding that the police officials sent all the samples for forensic analysis.
The police experts had reached the unanimous opinion that both the women had been killed by the DSP who had washed out the upper parts of the passenger seats in order to mislead the investigators.
The matter was later discussed in a high-level meeting of the Lahore police’s senior officials who passed orders to probe DSP Gujjar.
“We raided his residence and took him (Gujjar) into custody late on Saturday, questioned him and he confessed to his crime,” SP Ayyaz Hussain said.
After committing the murders, the suspect had dumped the bodies of both victims in the outskirts of Lahore and Sheikhpura.
The ‘unidentified decomposed bodies’ of both the women were later found by the Sheikhpura and Lahore police and they were buried in the local graveyards after formal procedures.
The Ferozewala and Kahna SHOs were called on the respective crime spots who confirmed that they had found decomposed bodies of ‘the unidentified women’ (wife and daughter of the DSP) and buried them in the local graveyards after having post-mortem reports.
SP Hussain said that after DSP Gujjar’s arrest he, along with the police team, took him to Kahna and Sheikhpura where he pointed out the places of dumping the bodies.
A source said that the kidnap case unfolded the cold-blooded murders of the two women when the police high-ups took the decision for the forensic analysis of the official vehicle of the DSP. He said the suspect first allegedly fired a shot at his wife using a 9MM pistol and then killed his 19-year-old daughter.
The DSP drove towards Kahna where he dumped the body of his daughter into the drain in a deserted area close to the border of the district Kasur and then travelled to Sheikhupura and threw the body of his wife in tehsil Ferozwala.
Lahore Investigation DIG Zeshan Raza had assigned the case in-question to Model Town Investigation SP Ayyaz Hussain.
Mr Hussain told Dawn the DSP had allegedly shot his wife and daughter dead on the Ring Road after having a dinner in a posh area of Defence Housing Authority (DHA), following some domestic issues. He said the police had been investigating the case for the past two months, keeping in view information provided by the DSP himself being the complainant.
To a question, the SP said that evidence revealed that the DSP had hatched a plan of killing his wife and daughter as they had objected to his second marriage.
Mr Hussain said the suspected police officer had not taken his official driver and gunman to accompany him on the day of the murders.
At the time of his arrest, Usman Haider Gujjar was undergoing training at the Police Training College, Sihala, as a part of his promotion to the rank of SP.
Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2025
