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KARACHI: In a shocking incident, a mother of six children apparently ‘boiled’ in cauldron allegedly by her husband in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality on Wednesday.
The body of a woman who later identified as 32-year-old Nargis was found while being boiled in cauldron at a kitchen of a private school located at Block 4 in Gulshan-e-Iqbal within the limits of Mobina Town police station.
The police found the body after the 15-year-old daughter of the deceased woman informed the police helpline 15. After getting information, police reached the school and recovered the charred body of a woman. The body was then transported to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center for medico-legal formalities.
District East SSP Abdur Rahim Sherazi while quoting the preliminary investigation told that the deceased woman’s husband identified as Ashiq, hailing from Bajaur Agency, worked at a school as a watchman and the family resided in the school’s servant quarters, added that the school was closed about eight to nine months ago.
Following the incident, the suspect; however, escaped along with his three children while the remaining three children are in the safe custody of the police. “Three children are with us,” says SSP Sherazi. “They are traumatized and shocked.”
Explaining the incident, the officer said that the initial investigations and victim’s children statements suggests that the suspect first strangled his wife with the help of pillow and then was boiling her apparently to hide the crime in front of his children.
Though it is yet to be ascertained either the woman was alive or dead when she was being boiled or cooked in the cauldron, the police investigators were looking for the postmortem report. One of the legs of the woman was also severed from the body.
The actual motive behind the incident is yet to be ascertained; however, it has been reported that the husband allegedly used to force her wife into illicit relations and killed her after she refused for immoral activities. A case has been registered while raids are being carried out for his arrest. “We have his [suspect] two cell numbers but he switched off both of them,” the officer explained. “We are tracing him and will arrest him soon.” Further investigation was underway.
