Man held for killing daughter, friend remanded in police custody

A judicial magistrate on Wednesday remanded a suspect in police custody for four days in a killing for ‘honour’ case. A girl and her 20-year-old friend were shot dead allegedly by her father Azhar in her home in Malir's Rafa-e-Aam Society on Tuesday morning.

The investigation officer produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate (East) and sought his 14-day physical remand in police custody for interrogation. He said the suspect's custody was needed for interrogation and completion of legal formalities.

However, the magistrate handed over the suspect to the IO on a four-day physical remand. An FIR has been lodged under the sections 302 (murder) and 311 (tazir after waiver or compounding of right of qisas in premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the behalf of the state through Assistant Sub-Inspector Zameer Hussain.

The complainant stated that he and his subordinates were on routine patrol when they received information from Madadgar 15 that a man had shot and killed his daughter and a boy in Rafe-e-Aam Society.

He said he proceeded to the location where local residents had gathered. He said that two bodies were found in a room on the first floor of the house — one of a young woman who was later identified as Fatima, aged between 20 and 22 years, and the other of a young man identified as Ashiq Ali Solangi.

The police officer relayed that Azhar was standing with a pistol in his hand. During initial questioning, the suspect confessed to the crime, stating that he had caught his daughter Fatima with Ashiq, and shot them both with his licensed pistol over honour.