Sialkot woman cut into pieces by in-laws

A domestic fight took the life of a woman from tehsil Daska of Sialkot.

Media reports suggest that the 30-year-old woman was killed by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law on Tuesday. The victim's body was then put into a sack and thrown into a drain.

The case came to light when Shabbir Ahmed, a resident of district Gujranwala, complained to the police that his daughter Zara Bibi, who was married to Qadeer Ahmed of tehsil Daska, had gone missing. 

Zara and Qadeer had been married for four years, but Qadeer worked abroad while Zara lived with her in-laws.

Shabbir told the police that when he called his daughter two days back, he found her mobile phone switched off. Worried, he went to meet his daughter at her in-laws' house in the village of Kotli Meeran in Daska. There, he found out that she was not home, and her in-laws expressed ignorance of her whereabouts.

Zara’s father alleged that her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law used to assault his daughter.

The local Police Station registered an FIR against Zara’s in-laws, namely her mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and their sons. 

A police investigation revealed that the victim's body was found in a sewage drain. 

Further investigation revealed that she was killed and her body was dismembered by the killers. 

Geo News reports that the suspects confessed to the murder during the investigation, after which the police recovered the body parts from a sack in a drain.

It was further revealed in the probe that the mother-in-law is actually the maternal aunt of the victim, and Zara had just returned to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia with her two-and-a-half-year-old son.  She is reported to have come to visit often in the past as well.

The reason behind the domestic feud was that Qadeer used to send all the money to his wife's account, which perturbed Zara’s mother-in-law, Sughran Bibi.

The latter first tried to get her son to divorce his wife by accusing her of having loose morals. When that did not work out, she and her daughters planned the murder. To execute the plan, the mother and daughters lured a relative from Lahore, Naveed, to help him go to Italy. Thus, they first choked Zara to death, then cut her body into pieces and then burnt her face so that she could not be identified. 

They stuffed the pieces of the body in five sacks. After this, Naveed went back to Lahore while the mother-in-law, with the help of her daughters and grandsons, threw the body in the drain.

As Zara's father informed the police about her daughter's disappearance, the cops took the grandsons into custody and interrogated them, who revealed the whole truth.

Now all the suspects involved are in police custody.