ATTOCK: In another grueling case of violence against women, a three-month-old bride was shot dead by her in-laws early Friday morning in Attock’s tehsil Boota, alleged the bride’s father.
Sheik Al-Hassan Shah said his daughter, identified as 26-year-old Saeeda Bano, was often assaulted by her in-laws. However, the conditions deteriorated after her husband went to Dubai to look for a job and the intensity of in-laws’ violence against Saeeda increased.
Her father registered a FIR and the police have started the investigation. The body was taken to DHQ Hospital for postmortem, which revealed that Saeeda was shot from a distance of four feet.
Other similar cases have also surfaced in the recent past. On March 26, a newlywed bride was found dead in her room in Kot Shakir, Jhang. According to the police, the groom had managed to escape from the scene. The girl was suffocated to death, according to the initial postmortem report. A few days before, the groom, Shafeeq, had eloped with the girl, his relative, to marry of their own accord.
On March 15, another newlywed bride was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Lahore’s Samanabad area. The bride, identified as Hira, was married three days ago to her paternal cousin, Tanveer.
According to her in-laws, in the morning, her body was found in the room. The in-laws sent the bride’s body in a car back home and informed the police. Later, the groom confessed to the murder.