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RAWALPINDI: The police on Friday said they had arrested the primary suspect in the murder of a first-year college student who was poisoned to death in the name of ‘honour’ in Rawalpindi last week.
According to a case filed earlier this week, the victim’s father and uncle were booked on the complaint of a police officer. It said that the girl’s family “suspected that she had established relations with someone” and ran away from home, alleging that she was poisoned to death by her relatives.
The suspects were charged under Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 302 (punishment for murder) and 311 — which specifies the penalties that can be awarded by a judge regardless of whether or not a compromise has been reached in a case of murder — of the Pakistan Penal Code.
A statement issued by the Rawalpindi police today said the murder’s primary suspect, the uncle, was arrested.
