The Race Course Woman Police handed over the bodies of the deceased Kinnaird College for Women student and her alleged lover to their families after the completion of autopsy. Samar Wasti, a KCW ICS student who was murdered on Monday by her alleged lover Shams Alam was reported to have received five bullets in different parts of her body while Alam received one bullet in his head.
Samar’s body was received by her father, brother and other relatives while Alam’s was received by the maternal uncle at about 1:30pm from the Mayo Hospital morgue. The families did not exchange any words with each other or with the media. Samar’s body was taken to Faisalabad and Alam’s to Sargodha for their funerals.
Even though two different cases of murder/attempted murder and suicide have been registered against Alam, they would be closed after the police receives the autopsy report. Meanwhile, even the bloody murder and suicide could not convince the Operations Wing of Lahore Police to appoint officials outside girls’ institutions to prevent such incidents from happening again. After Monday’s incident, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had issued orders to the police department to come up with a strategy to counter eve-teasers outside girls’ schools and colleges. DIG Operations Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, in his official statement after a meeting with SSPs and SPs of Lahore, had said an action plan had been devised to take strict action against wanderers involved in eve-teasing around schools and colleges and police officials in civvies would be deployed. He said eve-teasers would only be released once their parents sign stamped papers. During the same meeting Khawaja Saad Rafique and Mian Nauman had suggested that a complaint box be placed outside every institution. However, divisional SPs have so far failed to implement any of the aforementioned orders and suggestions.
Really sorry to know about the terrible incident…
The suggestions put forth are good (if implemented), especially the complaint box one, because many a times girls cannot tell their family about such threats however, telling it to police and their institution through the complaint box might be a good idea. Though I am a little critical about the working of this method and what mechanisms would police use to verify if the complaint is genuine.
I hope things get better in Pakistan.The frustration that gender discrimination has sown in the minds and hearts of our youth is actually causing so many social problems and crimes.
We must realise that we need to protect and nurture the youngsters and make them feel secure to share their problems and fears with us rather than building glass walls and keeping them at a distance.
God bless Pakistan.
Why do you call this murderer "her allaged lover". Dont you people have a heart?.
It breaks ones heart to see such incidents taking place in our society but it enrages one when you see that the media HAS to make a 'chatpatti' news out of every thing. The channels and newspapers that are calling the psychopath murderer the poor girls 'alleged lover' should be ashamed of themselves. If nothing, have enough decency to not be the source of embarrassment to the already grief struck family of the deceased.
…but I guess it is asking too much of the heartless, conscienceless and pathetic media of ours.
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