KARACHI: A 70-year-old man was allegedly murdered before being hacked to pieces in Karachi’s Saddar area by a woman who was allegedly co-habiting with him for the past several years, according to police.
According to details, Preedy Police Station House Officer (SHO) Sajjad Khan said officials arrived at an apartment on Abdullah Haroon Road on Friday afternoon after receiving complaints of a human hand and other body parts being seen outside a flat.
When the cops arrived, they discovered a dismembered body of a man lying on the floor over a pile of old clothes, in an apartment on the building’s mezzanine floor, while the 40-year-old woman was “comfortably sleeping” in another room.
“His head and hands were lying separate from the body in a nearby box,” the police official said, adding that the 40-year-old woman appeared to be intoxicated. There were bloodstains on the woman’s hands and clothes, according to Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Zubair Nazir Sheikh.
Witnesses and neighbours told the police that the victim and suspect were in a live-in relationship, but she insisted that she was his wife. “According to neighbours, the two usually quarreled with each other over domestic issues,” the SHO said.
Police said it had collected evidence from the scene and the women had been taken into custody. The woman, however, denied she had murdered the man. Police have recovered several tools from the woman’s possession, according to SSP Zubair Nazir Sheikh.
Officials also called the victim’s son and other relatives, who live near Atrium Mall in Saddar, to complete legal formalities. The body was shifted to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for postmortem.
The suspected woman in the murder of Shiekh Sohail, a 70-year-old man, is a resident of Junejo Town and they had been living together for many years, police said after conducting an initial investigation into the incident.
Initially, the woman claimed that the deceased was her husband, but authorities have yet to corroborate this. According to police, the same woman went to the police a year-and-a-half ago and told them that her husband was not paying for her expenses.
Police said the woman used a knife, a hammer and other weapons to commit the murder. They said the deceased was already married to someone.
