Second husband of the deceased also surrenders to police
Faisal Sheikh
RAWALPINDI, JUL 27 /DNA/ – A Rawalpindi court has awarded remand of three suspects to police custody in connection with the alleged murder and honor killing of a newlywed woman in Pirwadhai.
Police have arrested eight individuals, including the woman’s husband, her brother, other family members, a gravedigger, a graveyard management official, and a rickshaw driver who reportedly transported her body.
RAWALPINDI: The suspected honour killing case in Rawalpindi’s Pirwadhai area took a new turn after the deceased woman’s second husband surrendered to police on Saturday night, police said.
The case involves the murder of a 19-year-old woman, reportedly killed in the name of so-called honour following a jirga verdict, and secretly buried in a local graveyard.
The woman, married to Zia-ur-Rehman, had allegedly left her home on July 11 with gold jewellery, Rs150,000 in cash, and her belongings, according to the FIR registered by the husband on July 21.
He later learned she had married a man named Usman, despite already being married, according to the FIR.
She was believed to have been murdered on July 16 and buried the next day.
However, in a new twist, the woman’s second husband, Usman, surrendered himself to police late last night in Rawalpindi’s Pirwadhai area.
As per the Nikahnama (marriage form), the couple had married on July 12 in Muzaffarabad.
Usman, originally from Chehla Bandi, Muzaffarabad, works at a workshop near the Pirwadhai bus stand. The girl had married him on July 12 in Muzaffarabad and had earlier filed a statement before the judicial magistrate and sought protection from the court.
In her statement before the court, the woman claimed that she had willingly married Usman and revealed that her father had passed away, her mother had remarried, and that her first husband had verbally divorced her, according to police sources.
