Woman released after witnesses retract statements in daughter murder case

A Pakistani policeman closes the main gate of the Adiala Jail, in Rawalpindi, 17 November 2006, where a British national Mirza Tahir Hussain was held on death row. Hussain, whose death sentence was commuted by President Pervez Musharraf, on 16 November, was freed from the jail on 17 November, ending his 18-year fight for justice. Hussain's penalty for allegedly killing a taxi driver in 1988 was commuted to life imprisonment following appeals by Britain's Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI / AFP)

Posted By: Fahim Ahmed May 20, 2020

Sialkot (HRNW) A Sialkot woman has been released from jail after two witnesses retracted their statements in the murder case of a five-year-old child.

The child was killed was May 12. Her mother was accused of drowning her in a bathtub. A case was registered against her by her husband, Usman Ghani.

The witnesses told the police that the woman tried to drown her two daughters, one five-year-old and another one-and-a-half-year-old, in a bathtub. The infant was saved but the other died.

The woman reportedly confessed to the murder saying that she took the step because she was tired of her husband’s constant taunts over not having a son. She claimed that they fought over their children every day.

 

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