Man burns pregnant wife, two minor sons to death

HYDERABAD: A pregnant woman and her two minor sons had died in a fire at their home in Goth Wali Muhammad Mangrio, District Mirpurkhas, on Wednesday. The case took a new turn on Thursday, when the woman’s husband admitted to burning them to death.

The woman’s brother Gordhan Bheel filed a complaint at the Sindhri police station claiming that his sister was often tortured by her husband, and that the man had also beaten her on the day of the incident.

After police detained the husband, Vejhu Bheel, the man admitted to burning his wife Maryam Bheel and children Harlal, 5, and Khushal, 2, to death. SHO Khuda Bakhsh Ranjhani said the husband claimed that he had killed his wife and children over honour because she was involved in an extramarital affair.

The doctors who conducted the woman’s post-mortem examination said she had been pregnant. They said that the initial autopsy also revealed that one of her legs had been amputated, while signs of torture were also found on the five-year-old victim.