Rawalpindi women stabbing case: Advocate claims suspect wrongly accused

RAWALPINDI: The advocate of the main suspect in the Rawalpindi women stabbing saga, on Sunday, said that Mohammad Ali is a patient and not linked to the knife-related attacks on women that occurred after dark.

The suspect was presented before a local magistrate’s court today where his advocate alleged that his client was arrested the day his stitches were opened after a gallbladder operation.

Confession taken during police custody is of no importance, said advocate Khalid Zaheer Raja, adding that Ali is not a mental patient.

The lawyer also claimed that his client was arrested first and then a sketch of a possible culprit was released.

Police kept him under illegal custody for a week, the advocate added in his arguments.

Police had earlier arrested Mohammad Ali after three unsuccessful attempts at catching the culprit who stabbed women after dark in the city.

In his confession, Ali had said that he stabbed women because he hated them. He had told police that he hated women because his stepmother had mistreated him as a child, and he had been rejected by a woman he claimed to have loved.

“I did not want to kill anyone. I had no accomplices,” he had said in a police statement he recorded. 

“Stabbing women gave me peace of mind,” he reportedly had said.

Since February 32 women have been attacked while one of them has died in these stabbing incidents.

Around 25 women were injured with a knife-like object in the first three weeks of February this year.