GUJRANWALA: A man allegedly killed his wife and teenage daughter in the name of honor, police said.
In a separate incident, a man allegedly killed three of a family.
As far as the first incident was concerned, police said the suspect fled after the incident.
However, they identified him through the CCTV footage.
The trail of the alleged incident of honor killing goes back 12 years when one Bilal Mehr had gone to a cemetery to attend a funeral where he spotted Irshad Bibi, wife of a gravedigger, Ejaz.
Police said that Bilal Mehr fell for Irshad Bibi.
Police said Bilal somehow managed to get Irshad Bibi’s phone number and called her. Surprisingly, Irshad Bibi responded favorably to Bilal’s intransigence.
Thus began an affair, and the two talked to each other by phone regularly. Police said the rendezvous continued for two years, and Irshad Bibi eloped, taking her daughter with her.
Police said that Irshad Bibi took refuge at a shelter home in Lahore, where she demanded that Ejaz divorce her.
She got divorced, and then Bilal married Irshad Bibi. He stayed in Lahore for a few months and then returned to his hometown in Wazirabad. Bilal, his wife and stepdaughter, found a flat in Mohalla Rahimpura, and then he went to Iraq. Ten years passed, and apparently, the couple had no fissures.
But then things changed.
Police said there was a clinic on the ground floor of the flat where Irshad Bibi lived with her daughter. A doctor at the clinic started visiting Bilal’s house.
Bilal Mehr returned home and got wind of his wife’s affair with the doctor. Bilal planned to check the veracity of the rumors in the neighborhood. Bilal told his family that he was going back to Iraq.
On the day of his supposed departure, the family hopped in the doctor’s car to go to the airport to see Bilal off.
Bilal took a detour, telling his children that he was taking them to visit the zoo first before going to the airport. At the zoo, he told his children to go home and that he would go to the airport alone.
Police aid Bilal stayed in the city away from the family.
They said that he learned through a source the next day that the doctor was at his home.
Police said he went home and allegedly found his wife and the doctor in a compromising position. He killed his wife Irshad Bibi and daughter Zahra with an axe and fired at the doctor, but he escaped unhurt.
Source: The Express Tribune
