A mother of three was allegedly tortured to death by her husband in Rawalpindi over domestic issues on Friday, according to media reports.

 

The police reportedly registered an FIR against her husband, Amir Abbas, and their children on charges of murder and concealing evidence.

 

Ghulam Akhtar, a resident of Kot Adu in Muzaffargarh district, lodged the FIR at the Dhamial police station. He said his daughter, Samina, married Amir Abbas 19 years ago by choice and had been living with him in Malik Colony, Girja Road, Rawalpindi. The couple had three children, Mohammad Zaman, 17, Shan Haider, 15, and Maryam Rani, 12.

 

Akhtar said, “On Wednesday morning, an announcement was made in our native town that my daughter’s funeral would be held at 8am in a local graveyard, but no one from our family had been informed about her death.”

 

He added that he, along with his brothers Ghulam Rasool and Abdul Rehman, and his sister Kalsoom Bibi, went to Amir Abbas’s home. “My sister Kalsoom Bibi and other women saw torture marks on Samina’s body,” he said.

 

Akhtar told police that he called the emergency helpline in Kot Adu for assistance. “As soon as I contacted the police, Amir Abbas and his children began threatening me with dire consequences,” he alleged.

 

The reports added that Kot Adu police informed Akhtar that the incident fell under the jurisdiction of Dhamial police in Rawalpindi. The case was then taken up by Dhamial police, who transported Samina’s body to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Rawalpindi for postmortem examination.

 

In his complaint, Akhtar alleged that his son-in-law, Amir Abbas, along with his children, had murdered his daughter.