Man arrested for ‘stoning’ wife to death in Mansehra
MANSEHRA: The police on Sunday arrested a man, who allegedly stoned his wife to death and tried to portray the incident as an accident, in the Ghanool Valley of Balakot tehsil here. “We have arrested the accused, who had married the woman after she allegedly eloped with him and later killed her brutally,” SHO Kaghan police station Sadaqat Khan told reporters. The gruesome murder took place on…
Mansehra police have arrested a man accused of stoning his wife to death and attempting to cover up the brutal crime, according to SHO Kaghan police station Sadaqat Khan. The woman allegedly eloped with the accused, married him ten months ago, and later died after the alleged attack. The police suspect the man took his wife to a mountainous area on the pretext of a recreational trip, where he stoned her to death.
After her death, he threw her body into a ditch to make it appear as an accidental death. The man performed burial rituals immediately following the incident to conceal his actions, but the police managed to trace and arrest him. The accused confessed to the crime before a court in Balakot, which subsequently sent him on judicial remand.
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