Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan
UMERKOT: A young childless woman committed suicide due to taunts of her in-laws in a village in the Samaro area on Tuesday. Ms Ganga 25, wife of Dayaram Kolhi, resident of Mir Safdar Talpur village, had been married a few years ago and was still childless. According to sources, her in-laws used to taunt her for being childless.
On Tuesday at 10am she committed suicide by hanging herself through a ceiling fan at her house.
The body was taken to Samaro taluka hospital and, after post-mortem, handed over to relatives.
No case was registered till the filing of this report.
Meanwhile, Samaro police have registered a case on the complaint of one Yaqoob Makrani.
The complainant stated in the FIR that his seven-year-old son Munawwar Hussain died after being hit by the motorcycle of Sultan Makrani.
Source: Dawn
Date:2/18/2009
