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  • Teenager murders cousin after she refuses to marry him; later commits suicide

    Teenager murders cousin after she refuses to marry him; later commits suicide

    A young man in Islamabad shot his female cousin dead before taking his own life in the Soan area of Khanna police station on Monday.

    The girl, a first-year student in college, had refused the boy’s marriage proposal multiple times, stating that her focus was on her studies. The family also had categorically refused to give her hand in marriage to her cousin.

    As per police reports, upon rejection, Akash barged into the house of the girl and opened fire at his cousin who was studying in her room, killing her on the spot.

    Later, he turned the gun on himself and ended his life with a bullet to the head.

    A report by Iftikhar Chaudhry published in the Express Tribune states that police handed the bodies over to relatives after examination while a report of the incident was registered and further investigation was underway.

  • TRIGGER WARNING: Teenage girl murdered by aunt for refusing to marry her son

    A teenage orphaned girl has been murdered by her aunt for refusing to marry her son, Sher Ali in Alpuri district, Muzzafargarh.

    According to the FIR registered on Sunday, Muslimah, 16, was living with her maternal aunt after her father went missing from a coal mine years ago, and her mother re-married a man from the Mingora area of Swat.

    The complaint, Muslimah’s uncle Wazir Khan, said that his niece was being pressurized by her aunt to marry her 22-years-old son. However, she had refused because she wasn’t ready to take such a decision. She was poisoned to death by her aunt.

    According to Dawn, police officials said that the girl had been buried and the aunt’s family had hidden the truth by declaring Muslimah’s death a natural one. But her father’s relatives had refused to accept the explanation and demanded an autopsy of the body.

    In the FIR filed at the Alpuri police station, Sher Ali and his father Hamil Kareem have also been named as culprits in the murder.

  • Three men sentenced to death for gang raping teenager in Kasur

    A gender-based violence court on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the gang-rape of a mentally challenged minor girl, reported Dawn.

    As per reports, the court also imposed a fine to compensate the family of the survivor.

    The accused abducted a 13-year-old girl from Eisanagar on Aug 21, 2019, held her at a deserted house and raped her. Locals and family found her at the house of Javed, one of the four accused, after they heard the girl crying.

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    The survivor’s father filed an FIR at the B-Divison police station near Essa Nagri. The suspects were arrested after their DNA reports confirmed the rape.

    Two years later in 2021, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajawal Khan awarded the death penalty to Javed, Shaimoon Masih and Haroon Masih and acquitted Younis by giving him the benefit of the doubt.