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Bodies of couple found in well in Gadap Town

* Police believe the eloped couple were killed by their families over honour

By Faraz Khan

KARACHI: The bodies of a young man and a pregnant woman were found in a 200-feet deep well in Gadap Town.

Police officials believe that their families might have killed them on the pretext of honour.

After the residents of the area informed the police about a foul stink emitting from a well located in Yasrab Colony near Sehra-e-Madina, Superhighway, in the jurisdiction of Gadap City police station, Edhi volunteers were called in who recovered the bodies from the well and shifted them to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities. The woman was identified as Hazrat Bibi, 29, daughter of Painda Khan, and the man as Shahenshah, 25, son of Safoon Khan, both of Afghan descent.

The police said the woman was married to a man named Zahir Shah, a resident of Yasrab Colony, and had two children with her husband. At the time of her death, she was four months pregnant.

She went missing in August and her husband Shah had registered an FIR against the paternal uncle of the other victim, Shahenshah, named Taj Gul and two others, Achakzai and Gul Mohammad, on August 6 over the allegation of abduction.

Gadap City DSP Choudhry Saifullah said that the slain couple were relatives and apparently the woman left her husband and eloped with the man. Both were hiding somewhere in the city, he added.

The initial investigation revealed that their families were involved in their murder. “Their families called them to Kutchi Camp promising them that they would not be punished,” said the DSP. “The couple went there on Monday night and their families threw them in the well.”

Gadap City police officer Inspector Raja Aslam said apparently both victims were thrown in the well alive. The inspector quoted the doctors as saying that the man’s death occurred due to a blow on his head while the woman drowned. “The post-mortem report will finally reveal their cause of deaths as it might be possible that they were thrown in the well after being poisoned,” the officer said.

None of the family members of slain victims approached the police to take away the bodies suggesting that the families were involved in the double murder.

No case was registered till the filing of this report while police officials said that they would register a case on behalf of the state.

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