Police in Rawalpindi have arrested a man along with his teenage son on charges of beating his wife to death and attempting to bury her in their native town of Kot Addu. The arrests were made after the woman’s relatives reported signs of violence on her body.

 

 

The woman, 36-year-old Samina Bibi, passed away after suffering serious head injuries, a police spokesperson said. When she was taken to Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital on August 10, her husband Amir Abbas first claimed to the medical staff that she had fallen down stairs. According to hospital records, she passed away on August 13 after sustaining severe head injuries.

 

 

Without telling her parents, Abbas announced the funeral and took the body to Kot Addu for burial. When female relatives, including the victim's sister and sister-in-law, looked over the body and noticed several injury marks, the plot was derailed. Ghulam Akhtar, her father, was informed and the police was called. 

 

 

Later, Akhtar filed a complaint with Rawalpindi's Dhamiyal police, claiming that his daughter had wed Abbas 19 years prior without her family's approval and that the two had three kids together. He claimed that Abbas killed his daughter and tried to hide the murder by claiming it was an accident, with the help of his 17-year-old eldest son Muhammad Zaman.

 

 

Police said the suspects threatened Akhtar and other relatives when they intervened, but officers moved the body back to Rawalpindi for a postmortem examination. Both Abbas and his son were formally taken into custody and presented before a court, which granted police three days of physical remand for investigation.

 

 

 

SP Sadar Muhammad Nabil Khokhar said further proceedings will continue once the investigation is completed.