A judicial magistrate on Thursday remanded a lady police constable in police custody for questioning in a case pertaining to the murder of her husband.
Dua Rustam, along with her former husband Fahad and other unidentified accomplices, has been booked for alleged murder of 30-year-old Hamza, who was found dead at his residence in Sector 10, Orangi Town on June 9.
On Thursday, the investigating officer produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate (West) and sought her physical remand in police custody for interrogation. The IO informed the court that the suspect was a police constable and performing her duties at the Super Market police station.
He said that the suspect is to be interrogated about the crime and to arrest her accomplices, including Fahad, who was still at large. After hearing the IO, the magistrate handed over the custody of the suspect to the police on six-day police remand with a direction to produce her on the expiry of the remand along with a progress report. An FIR has been registered at the Mominabad police station on the complaint of the victim’s father Zahooruddin under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
In the FIR, the complainant said that he received a phone call from his daughter, who asked him to come over to Hamza’s house near Arshi Mosque. Family members rushed to the house and found him dead, he said, adding that his body was hanging from the ceiling. He said Hamza’s hands appeared to be tied and a cloth was pushed into his mouth. The family also noticed minor injury marks on his body.
The victim’s father alleged that Hamza’s wife Dua, her former husband, and some other people were involved in his son’s murder and tried to make it look like a suicide. He also said that Fahad had come to the house a few days earlier and had a dispute with the deceased.
