Police on Sunday claimed to have solved the blind murder case of a woman residing in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighbourhood.
They said Sanam Abbas was killed after being kidnapped, adding that her husband and in-laws were behind the incident.Officials said the woman’s husband and in-laws had paid for the abduction and murder, adding that the woman’s body was later recovered from Afghan Basti and she was identified through the biometric system.
Police then registered a case against unidentified persons on the complaint of the victim’s uncle. They said that during their investigation, they arrested a suspect named Sajid and interrogated him.
Officials said that during the interrogation, the suspect revealed that the victim’s husband and in-laws were behind the incident, and that he had murdered the woman after receiving a payment of Rs80,000 to abduct and kill her.Police said the suspect had identified the victim’s husband Yad-e-Ali and her mother-in-law Sughra Bibi for having paid the cash to Ayaz Khan Bajauri, the suspect’s accomplice on the run.
Police then registered a case against unidentified persons on the complaint of the victim’s uncle.
They said that during their investigation, they arrested a suspect named Sajid and interrogated him.
Officials said the two men had abducted the woman, murdered her and then dumped her body in Afghan Basti, adding that the victim’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law have been arrested.
