Marrying Against Family Wishes: Girl Allegedly Murdered

News Desk

Peshawar: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly shot dead by her relatives for getting married against her family’s wishes near the Inqilab police station.

ASI Fazal Diyan told media persons on Monday that the slain lived in Kohat with her husband.

The area police received information that a girl was being covertly buried at a local cemetery. After the initial investigation, it was determined that it was the same girl who had been granted court bail.

Later, the police received information that the girl had been killed by her relatives in the Kochiyan Qilla area for honour.

The police also searched the house of the suspects for evidence and later arrested the father of the girl, Muhammad Gul, the victim’s uncle, Juma Gul, and their cousins, Nauman and Ehsanullah, for their involvement in the girl’s murder.