Two men accused of murdering grandmother remanded for two days

A judicial magistrate on Saturday remanded two suspects in the custody of police for two days for interrogation about strangling to death an elderly woman.

According to the investigation officer, Jamila Begum, aged between 80 and 85 years, was the maternal grandmother of suspects, Tanvir and Haris, and they killed her for money in the Mominabad area of Orangi Town.

The West district’s judicial magistrate, Asif Ali Abbasi, sent the suspects on physical remand and sought a progress report from the police on Monday.

Jamila Begum was found dead in her house in Orangi Town on the night of March 24.

The police interrogated the two suspects who, according to the investigation officer, confessed to their crime and admitted that they killed her for her money and valuables.

The case was registered under sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Mominabad police station.

A day earlier, police had said that the elderly woman had put up resistance when the suspects were stealing property documents. At this, the two strangled her to death.