Man kills girl for not marrying him

LAHORE: A man slaughtered a girl after her parents did not agree to their marriage in Shafiqabad police precincts on Thursday.

According to police, the accused, Irshad, wanted to marry Shamim and had been asking her parents for a long time. The girl’s father, Malik Fazal Elahi, a resident of Bund Road, refused to get his daughter married to him. On Wednesday, he entered the girl’s house in the absence of other family members. Upon his failure to convince her for marriage, Irshad attacked her with a dagger and slit her throat.

Shafiqabad police has registered the complaint against the accused and have started the investigation. The police also sent the body to the morgue for autopsy.
Source: Daily Times
Date:11/13/2009