Man arrested in wife murder case after bail cancellation

By Nadeem Shah
August 06, 2024
This representational image shows a handcuffed person. — Pexels/File
This representational image shows a handcuffed person. — Pexels/File

MULTAN: Police have arrested accused Ali Raza in the mysterious death case of his wife Sania-e-Zahara after cancellation of his pre-arrest bail from a court.

Sources said that the mysterious death case of 20-year-old Sania-e-Zahara, a mother of three sons, could not be solved even after 21 days.The deceased was found dead in her bedroom in mysterious circumstances as her body was hanging from a ceiling fan with a black piece of a cloth while her knees and legs were on a sofa couch on July 9.

Police investigators expressed apprehensions over her death keeping in view the available spot’s forensic picture.

A retired SDPO Safdar Nazir who had more than 30 years experience of handling murder investigations said that there was a clear difference between committing a suicide by hanging and strangling someone to death. In the available death spot’s forensic picture, the piece of cloth used as a rope was very high and tied up with a ceiling fan. At the time of committing suicide, a person’s nerves are not strong enough to tie the rope tightly, he added.

He told that the head of the deceased was bent while her knees and legs were resting on the sofa couch. If the head was straightened, the head would be completely loose from rope, he added. The breath cannot be stopped by hanging from a loose rope so the suicide cannot be done in this position, he observed.

It was important to mention when the suicide commits by hanging, there should be no support under the feet, he observed. He told that the position of the dead body in the forensic picture under consideration was such that the death by suffocation cannot occur due to choking of the breath by the rope.

Safdar Nazir was also surprised to find a liquor bottle under the blanket visible in the picture. It means someone else, probably a drinker, was also present in the room of the deceased, he concluded.A retired SSP on the condition of anonymity observed that the death by asphyxia was quite suspicious when he analysed the forensic picture.