KARACHI: The husband of a school principal has confessed before a court to killing his wife and fabricating the story about armed robbers killing her.
The husband, identified as Ali Hassan, confessed before Judicial Magistrate East, adding that his second wife Sehrish and her brother Balaaj were not involved in the murder.
Suspect Sehrish had said that her husband had asked her for a pistol. She accepted that she provided him with the weapon without asking why he wants to use it.
On Sunday, police revealed that Ali Hassan had concocted the story about armed bandits shooting his wife, 41-year-old Ambreen Fatima, on December 10.
The police revealed that Ali worked as an administrator in the same school Ambreen was working as the principal, while Sehrish was employed as a teacher there.
Sehrish and Ambreen were also friends, said police, adding that Sahar and Ali had gotten married in private.
Sehrish’s brother, Balaaj, had been pressurising Ali for the rukhsati of his sister after which Ali made the plan to kill his wife.
On December 10, it was reported that Ambreen Fatima, principal of a private school, was shot dead by robbers and the incident was linked to rising street crime in the city.
Ali had told the police that at that time, he and his wife were driving around the city and had entered Parsi Colony, a locality within the vicinity of Soldier Bazaar police station when two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle intercepted them and demanded their mobile phones, cash and other valuables.
The husband had moved a little to hand over his mobile phone when the robbers opened fire on them, killing his wife, he has alleged.