Man guns down wife’s paramour

A furious man gunned down a man and wounded his wife after seeing them in objectionable condition in his house in Wah Cantt, Monday evening, police said.

The assailant, however, managed to escape with his two minors leaving his wife in the pool of blood. The locals shifted the body of the man and wounded woman to hospital with the help of area police.

The police have taken up the case and started hunt for the assailant, police said. Zarif Ahmad, a government servant, was suspicious about the character of his wife, Shazia Zarif, 27, and the situation was causing dispute between the husband and wife, the police said, quoting neighbouring people. They said that they have seen a young man, identified as Abid, occasionally visiting the house in the absence of Zarif. They have informed Zarif regarding suspicious activities of his wife.

On Monday morning, he decided to eliminate both of them after catching them red-handed. He asked his wife that he was going out station and would come back on Tuesday. He left the house in the afternoon and started waiting for the man (Abid) in a hideout, the police said.

After a few minutes of Abid’s arrival, Zarif stormed into the house and started firing at both of them after finding them in objectionable condition, the police said, adding that Abid was killed on the spot while Shazia was shifted to hospital in critical condition. She was not out of danger till the filing of this report and surgeons were trying to save her life.
Source: The News
Date:5/4/2008