Man slaughters stepdaughter

KARACHI - A man slaughtered his teenage stepdaughter whose wedding was scheduled for the next month.
Twenty one-year-old Rehana, the daughter of Nasarullah was slaughtered in her house No-16 Street No-9 Masoomabad, Orangi Town in the remits of Iqbal Market Police.
According to details, the incident occurred in wee hours as family woke up and informed the police about the incident. The Police reached the spot and took the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, which was later handed over to her family.
The Police lodged a case on the complaint of the deceased brother Rashid under No 329/09 under Section 302, against Rehana’s stepfather Imtiaz Khan.
The Police said that the accused hailed from Peshawar, had two wives, first wife residing in his hometown Peshawar while he got his second marriage with widow and mother of deceased some 12 years ago.
Imtiaz whose first wife is also from a Pakhtoon background, has five daughters and three sons from her first marriage.
The accused runs a butcher shop in Qasba Colony and at the time of incident, the deceased’s mother was not at home while her brothers were asleep. The Police quoted the statement of the complainant Rashid that “Imtiaz usually stop his mother from meeting with her relatives therefore when he came back home and found that she was not at home he became angry and killed his sister.”
The Police suspected that there was contradiction in the statements of the family members as some said that there was a dispute between the deceased’s mother and father over her wedding and they also quoted her age 14 though deceased was around 21 years old.
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