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Son-in-law guns down gang-rape victim for honour
LARKANA, July 23: A 50-year-old mother of eight who was subjected to gang rape a few days ago was shot dead by her son-in-law here on Friday.
The accused, Ishaque Bhutto, was arrested soon after the murder and he confessed to having killed her.
Husna Bhutto had lodged an FIR at the Haidri police station on July 19 against five people, including two police constables, who she alleged had sexually assaulted her. She identified the five as Tarique Junejo, Rasheed Bhutto, Imdad Sangi, Zulfikar Memon and Riaz Lashari. The five, she said in the FIR, had sexually assaulted her in a house owned by Rasheed Bhutto in Zulfikar Bagh area.
Police have arrested Tarique Junejo, Rasheed Bhutto and constable Zulfikar Memon, but the other two accused are at large. According to police, the day the crime had taken place, the womans son-in-law, Ishaque Bhutto, left Larkana for Ratodero because he could not stand peoples taunts.
He returned on Thursday and stayed at Ms Husnas house. After breakfast on Friday he shot her from close range, causing serious injuries.
Her husband Shahnawaz and other members of the family did little to protect her.
Later, Shahnawaz and some neighbours took her to the Chandka Medical College Hospital where she died. Ishaque escaped but was soon arrested.
It was a matter of honour for me and the womans son Khadim Hussain also asked me to kill her and I did it, he told journalists from the lock-up in the Market police station.
Khadim Hussain denied having asked the accused to kill his mother and said that Ishaque had told him he would also kill all the people named in the FIR because they had raped his mother-in-law.
Jawed Bhutto, another son of the woman, said the assault had upset his mother.
He said that she had brought up Ishaque in their house like her son.
DAWN.COM | Front Page | Son-in-law guns down gang-rape victim for honour
LARKANA, July 23: A 50-year-old mother of eight who was subjected to gang rape a few days ago was shot dead by her son-in-law here on Friday.
The accused, Ishaque Bhutto, was arrested soon after the murder and he confessed to having killed her.
Husna Bhutto had lodged an FIR at the Haidri police station on July 19 against five people, including two police constables, who she alleged had sexually assaulted her. She identified the five as Tarique Junejo, Rasheed Bhutto, Imdad Sangi, Zulfikar Memon and Riaz Lashari. The five, she said in the FIR, had sexually assaulted her in a house owned by Rasheed Bhutto in Zulfikar Bagh area.
Police have arrested Tarique Junejo, Rasheed Bhutto and constable Zulfikar Memon, but the other two accused are at large. According to police, the day the crime had taken place, the womans son-in-law, Ishaque Bhutto, left Larkana for Ratodero because he could not stand peoples taunts.
He returned on Thursday and stayed at Ms Husnas house. After breakfast on Friday he shot her from close range, causing serious injuries.
Her husband Shahnawaz and other members of the family did little to protect her.
Later, Shahnawaz and some neighbours took her to the Chandka Medical College Hospital where she died. Ishaque escaped but was soon arrested.
It was a matter of honour for me and the womans son Khadim Hussain also asked me to kill her and I did it, he told journalists from the lock-up in the Market police station.
Khadim Hussain denied having asked the accused to kill his mother and said that Ishaque had told him he would also kill all the people named in the FIR because they had raped his mother-in-law.
Jawed Bhutto, another son of the woman, said the assault had upset his mother.
He said that she had brought up Ishaque in their house like her son.
DAWN.COM | Front Page | Son-in-law guns down gang-rape victim for honour
