LARKANA – A woman was allegedly gunned down by her husband over a domestic issue in Muhammadi colony within the limits of Sachal police station of the city on Friday morning. According to rescue sources, Sajjad Pathan, shot dead his wife Surraya Kahtoon over a domestic issue in Larkana’s Muhammadi Colony and fled after swift operation. Police shifted her body to CMCH Emergency Department and then to the mortuary for carrying legal formalities. The relatives of Surraya Kahtoon held a protest at the Civil Hospital Road here on Friday for over three hours delay in conducting the postmortem examination by the Woman Medico-Legal Officer (WMLO) of the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Sultan Kalhoro, brother of the deceased woman, said that his sister was murdered by her husband and the body had been kept since morning. He said that doctors had told him that the relevant woman medico-legal officer was on leave, another lady doctor had been asked and she would conduct the postmortem when she arrived but despite passage of over three hours nothing had been done which was unjust and highhandedness. He demanded immediate fulfillment of legal formalities so that final rites could be carried out.

Source: The Nation