Punjab Govt forms investigation committee in Sania Zehra murder case

MULTAN:  Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz formed a committee to investigate the murder of Sania Zehra.

According to the details, RPO Bahawalpur Rai Babar, Additional Secretary Home, Deputy Prosecutor General Ismatullah Khan and CPO Sadiq Dogar are included in the committee.

The committee will review the investigation on a daily basis and meet the requirements of justice. Punjab Interior Department issued the notification of the formation of the committee.

On May 9, the case of the alleged suicide of Syed Asad Abbas Shah’s daughter Sania Zahra came to light in Multan, on which Sania’s father Asad Abbas accused Sania’s husband Ali Raza and her in-laws of killing her daughter, but initially the woman’s death was declared as suicide and the body was buried.

The deceased’s body was buried by the heirs without post-mortem, after exhuming the grave with the permission of the local magistrate, samples of the body were obtained and sent to the forensic laboratory in Lahore, the preliminary report of which has come out.

The preliminary investigation report of the incident was also sent to the Punjab Chief Minister and the IG. According to the forensic report, the incident was a suicide, and in the post-mortem, no sign of violence was found on the body.

Police officials said that the woman died due to a rope trap, the report did not find any injury or sign of violence on the girl’s body, there is no fracture in the woman’s body.

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On the other hand, Sania Zahra’s mother and father Syed Asad Abbas Shah said that her daughter did not commit suicide but was killed by torture. He demanded from the government to provide justice to them.