‘Poverty-stricken’ woman commits suicide after killing daughter

HYDERABAD: A woman and her daughter were found dead in a house near Nara Jail in Hyderabad on Friday.

As police received the information on Friday morning, they reached the house and shifted the bodies to a hospital for post-mortem examinations. A Crime Scene Unit team was also called at the house to collect evidence as the SITE DSP and SITE SHO initiated investigations.

Police said the woman first killed her daughter and then committed suicide. According to the initial report of doctors, the woman, Bakhtawar, 45, first made her daughter Saba, who was around 18 years old, unconscious by giving her some intoxicating substance, after which she strangled her with a rope.

Later, she used a ladder to hang herself. According to the police investigators, Bakhtawar was mentally ill and her husband had left her along with the children.

She lived with her four children — one daughter and three sons — and they were extremely poor, police said. The three sons of the deceased woman are between the ages of 16 and 22 years and they work as labourers on daily wages.

Police said that due to poverty, they lived in a cramped house that did not have enough space for all of them. As a result, the three sons slept outside the house. The sons informed the police that their mother had also made a suicide attempt earlier but it failed.

Meanwhile, SSP Dr Farrukh Ali of the Hyderabad district solved the murder-suicide case of a mother and daughter due to hunger and poverty. According to the preliminary report, it was a murder-suicide case reported at the SITE Section police station. The SITE police received information that the mother and daughter had committed suicide in a small house near the Nara jail.

SSP Dr Farrukh Ali ordered the DSP and the SHO to conduct an inquiry and submit a report. DSP Mukhtiar Memon and SHO Imran Rashid Sheikh immediately reached the spot and took the bodies to the hospital for a postmortem. Bakhtawar was a mentally unwell woman, and her husband had left her with their four children, a daughter and three sons.