PESHAWAR: A man allegedly poisoned his second wife to death over a domestic dispute with the connivance of his brothers and first wife in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur District.
According to details, the woman, identified as Ishrat Bibi (20-year-old), married to accused Nadeem 10 months earlier, after which his first wife left him.
In this regard, Nadeem along with his first wife and his brothers poised Ishrat Bibi to death. Later, the relatives of the slain woman staged a protest by placing her body on the road. “Until justice is done, we will not bury the body,” the family said.
The protesters also filed an application against the accused persons, however, the police have not yet registered a case. When contacted in this regard, the district police refused to comment.
Earlier in September, a man allegedly poisoned his wife to death with the connivance of his mother for not granting him permission to marry another woman in Chiniot.
An FIR of the incident that took place in the city’s suburban area of Kot Ismail has been registered at Lalian police station on the complaint of the deceased woman, Aniqa’s maternal uncle Nawazish.
