Man allegedly rapes, murders stepsister
RAWALPINDI: A murder suspect was detained by the police for allegedly assaulting his stepsister before torturing and strangling her in Rawat, police said on Sunday.
At first, the police were told that there had been a suicide case in the Bagashikhan area after which senior officials reached the spot and collected evidence. The suicide information was provided by the victim`s stepbrother, Mohammad Azhar.
However, after an investigation on the basis of circumstantial evidence, it turned out to be a murder case, following which Azhar was taken into custody, police said.
The suspect confessed to having committed the crime and revealed that he first tortured his stepsister in the absence of his mother, raped her, and then killed her by strangling her in her house.
Man kills wife over Karo-Kari
MIRPURKHAS: A married woman was axed to death by his husband over Karokari at village Rasool Bux Maher, in the limit of Khai police station here on Sunday.
Report said that Hussain Shah suspected his wife Fateh Khatoon of having illicit relations with someone in the area. Today after exchanging hot words on the issue, he attacked his wife Fateh Khatoon with an axe killed her on the spot, and then fled away from the spot.
Later police shifted the body of the deceased woman to the civil hospital where after post-mortem the body was handed over to heirs. Police were searching for the escaped accused.
