KARACHI: The court on Monday rejected a police report that declared four suspects innocent for electrocuting a teenage couple to death.
The police report, submitted to the Malir Judicial Magistrate Ateeq-ur-Rehman, had declared suspects Sartaj, Lal Rehman, Taj Muhammad, and Jan Muhammad innocent.
The court issued unbailable warrants of all four suspect.
Other arrested suspects in the case include the murdered woman's father Hikmat Taj Khan, the murdered man's father Muhammad Afzal, and Sher Afzal.
A case is registered against the suspects at the Ibrahim Hyderi Police Station.
Earlier in September, a teenage couple accused of violating the Pashtun ‘code of honour’ was killed reportedly by being given electric shocks. The murders were executed by family members on the orders of a jirga of elders of the Mohmand tribe.
The area where this atrocity played out was Ali Brohi Goth, a locality in the suburbs of Karachi that falls with the jurisdiction of the Ibrahim Hyderi police.
The woman, 15-year-old Bakht Taj had allegedly attempted to elope with 17-year-old Rehman. Both families belong to the Safi sub-clan of the Mohmand tribe and reside in Ali Brohi Goth.
On Independence Day, Taj disappeared from her house with cash and jewellery. While she stayed at a house in the nearby area of Gulshan-e-Buner, Rehman was to remain at his own home so as to not arouse suspicion.
As Taj’s frantic parents scoured their daughter’s room for any clue to her whereabouts, they soon found a mobile SIM card registered in Rehman’s name. The oversight proved fatal for the teenage couple as the elders managed to track Taj down and brought her home on the same day.