SWABI: A teenage girl has allegedly killed her mother for confiscating her mobile phone in a bid to protect her from an illicit relation with her cousin in the Swabi district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
According to police, the body of a woman, Bahar Bibi was lying inside the house and her 14-year-old daughter was missing.
After receiving information police reached the spot and took the body into custody. Later, a case against the husband of the deceased registered and a team was formed to investigate the matter, police sources said, adding that it was a completely blind murder case.
During the investigation, police found that the missing girl was in constant touch with her cousin, Arshad Iqbal a resident of Rawalpindi. A police team arrested Iqbal from Rawalpindi that the arrest of Arshad Iqbal was an important development in the investigation.
During the investigation, Arshad told police that he had received a phone call from the girl telling him that she had left her home on which he rushed to meet her and take her with him.
Sources added that the girl’s cousin panicked when the girl told him that she had killed her mother and ran away with her jewelry. Police officials said that the girl, just a juvenile, was later taken into custody where she told the police that she was in constant contact with Arshad.
The suspect’s mother soon discovered about her daughter’s secret relations and scolded her. She tried to explain to the teenager that she was only 14 years old and had been fooled into the relationship. This is also what prompted the mother to confiscate the daughter’s mobile phone, thinking the punishment would teach her a lesson.
The suspect admitted shooting her mother in the back with her father’s pistol, police said. “She then stabbed her too and tried to choke her to death,” the police officials explained. Following the murder, the teenager collected the jewelry and left the house and called her cousin to take her away with him.
According to the police, the case was “one example of how modern gadgets can impact our lives when provided to children unsupervised.”
