MANSEHRA: A newlywed couple was killed for honour in the Batrair area in the outskirts of the city, police said on Friday.
“We have arrested three of the six accused who had contacted the girl and man for reconciliation and hanged both of them to death,” Rabnawaz, the SHO Saddar Police Station, told reporters here.
He said Muhammad Bashir told the police that Samara Bibi and his son, Muhammad Zia had married on their own free will on July 17 and had left for Islamabad.
“Muhammad Safdar, the father of my daughter-in-law, called the couple back to his home deceiving them that as he and his other family members wanted to pardon them at a jirga,” he said.
“But Muhammad Safar and five other members of his family killed them by hanging them with a tree outside their home,” he alleged.
The police rushed to the scene following the complaint and shifted the bodies to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital for the autopsy.
The SHO said that Muhammad Safdar and two other accused were arrested and raids for the arrest of other accused booked were underway.
He said that nobody was above the law and those who committed the gruesome act would be brought to justice soon.
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