LAHORE, Oct 21: Fifty-year-old driver Qamar Sadiq who along with his wife Safia, 25, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in his Ghalib Market house over a week ago, had killed his first wife, his daughter Naureen from the first marriage told Dawnon Sunday.

Naureen said her father reaped what he had sown. She said that one of her brothers had confessed to the double murder just to save them from police investigation.

She said that her two brothers Nazim, 22, and Naveed, 17, were jobless and they often demanded money from father. She said that the two got mad on Oct 11 when their father refused to give them money he had arranged for her marriage.

Naureen discounted the plea his brothers took for the murder that they had killed their step-mother Safia as she was against her (Naureen’s) marriage. She regretted that she might never get married after this incident.

Police, however, claimed that they had arrested three sons of the driver and they had confessed to the double murder. The eldest son, Naeem, made a statement to the effect in custody while talking to Dawn.

Naeem said that his father married Safia against the will of his four children some six years ago when his mother died. “We never accepted Safia,” he said.

Naeem said that the family never approved of his father’s decision to remarry. He said Safia was too young to be their mother. She was a teenager when he married her.

He said that Safia was not happy with them and she wanted a separate house. He said that they often complained against her to their father but he never listened to them. His father was a henpeck, he claimed.

He said Safia considered their sister a rival and she did not want to marry her. He said when his father arranged her marriage on his own, Safia got angry and tried her best to impede it.

He said the issue made them murder Safia. He said they just wanted to kill Safia, but they had to kill their father when he woke up and saw us killing Safia.

He said they left a syringe near the body of the father and a “duppata” around the neck of Safia to give an impression that their father had committed suicide after killing Safia. The three brothers felt sorry for their father but they had no regrets over Safia’s murder.

The deceased had two daughters aged four and two from Safia whereas Naeem had also two daughters aged three and one.

Naeem’s wife, his sister Naureen and two daughters are being taken care of back home by his father-in-law.

Safia belonged to Sialkot and her family had taken her two daughters away to its native city. Qamar’s younger brother Munawwar is the complainant of the case. Investigation officer of the case claimed that autopsy confirmed that Safia was strangled and suffocation caused the death of Qamar Sadiq.— Zulqarnain Tahir