KASUR: The Phoolnagar police have registered a murder case against a man who allegedly tortured a minor maid to death and handed over the body to the bereaved family at Ghumankay village on Wednesday.

According to complainant Nazir, a brick kiln worker near Ghumankay, landlord Muhammad Usman of Gujranwala came to his house some five months ago and took his minor daughter Misbah Batool with him against a monthly salary worth Rs3, 000. On Wednesday, Usman called him to Lahore on the pretext that Batool was seriously ill.

When he reached Lahore, he said, the man took him to a deserted place where an ambulance was already parked. The suspect handed over the body of the victim to Nazir and later escaped in a car. The complainant said he found scars of hot iron and sharp-edged weapon on the body of his daughter.

On the orders of DPO Sohaib Ashraf, the Phoolnagar police registered a murder case against the suspects including Usman.

Source: Dawn