SAHIWAL: In two cases in the Pakpattan area, it was discovered that close relatives were the murder victims’ killers.
A trader’s sacked body was discovered at Khader Canal, close to the town of Saddu Piplee, 7 km from Pakpattan city, on Monday. It turned out that the trader’s nephew was the murderer.
Police have established that Adil Rafiq, 55, who had been reported missing since Sunday, was killed by strangulation at the hands of his nephew Farhan.
Dawn was informed by District Police Officer Tariq Walayat that Farhan had confessed to carrying out the murder after being taken into custody by the Farid Nagar Police. Saima, a widow who assisted Farhan in removing his uncle’s remains from the city, is the subject of an investigation by the police.
According to a police inquiry, three years prior, Farhan had married his first cousin, Uzma Ashraf, who was Rafiq’s niece. The home connection between the couple didn’t improve from the start. Five months later, Farhan divorced Uzma. When Uzma filed for divorce, she was expecting a child. She later gave birth to a daughter in her parents’ house in Faisalabad, but she kept their kid from Farhan.
Farhan has been putting pressure on his uncle Adil Rafiq to persuade Uzma and her parents to give him back the baby for the past 1.5 years. Rafiq repeatedly rejected Farhan’s demand, arguing that it would be best for the child to be with her mother. Farhan was enraged by this.
Adil Rafiq shut down his store at Farid Nagar Chowk on Sunday, and Farhan dragged him to his neighbor’s house. He made the same request of his uncle once more, but he declined. At this point, Farhan pulled out his weapon and shot wounds into his foot and leg. Later, he used a cotton sheet and his waist rope to strangle his uncle.
Farhan admitted to the detectives during questioning that he tried three times to kill Adil. He later termed his neighbor and friend, Saima, a widow. They dumped a dead body next to a settlement along the Khader Canal after packing it in a sack.
Saima and other suspects were being questioned by police, according to the DPO. Police added a murder section to the already-registered kidnapping case, according to SHO Afzal Jatoi.
In a another instance, the complainant in the Pakpattan neighborhood of Saddar Police Station turned out to be the murderer of his expectant wife.
Taimoor Taj (24), a resident of Chak 21/EB, tehsil Arifwala, had informed the police that on January 21, while coming home following her medical checkup, his wife Sidra was murdered by three thieves who remained unidentified.
Sidra was shot twice, once in the head and once in the stomach, according to the FIR. When the bandits motioned for him to stop close to the village, Taimoor had insisted he didn’t.
The forensic examination of the crime scene revealed one of the bullet shells under Sidra’s body, which led DPO Walayat and his colleagues to question the Taimoor’s account of the thieves firing from behind. Police believed she had been shot in the head at point blank range. Muzamil, Sidra’s brother, was also afraid that her sister had been killed by her husband.
During the investigation, police found Taimoor’s behaviour suspicious as he was not coordinating with police and once he hid himself in one of his lawyer friend’s house.
After his arrest, Taimoor Taj admitted that he had a relationship with another woman for the last six years but his family married him with Sidra. When she got pregnant, he decided to get rid of her and planned to kill her.
