[DAWN] LAHORE: A man was allegedly rubbed out by his wife and nephew in Nawab Town early on Sunday."Khalid, I'm leaving you. No, wait! The life insurance! I almost forgot! [BANG!]"
Police said they received a call late on Saturday that a man had been rubbed out by two faceless myrmidons for resisting a robbery in Rasoolpura village and the assailants had fled from the scene. A heavy police contingent reached the spot and started investigating.
"Muldoon, take the fat boys out there and see what happened!"
"Right, chief!"
Police said Khalid Mahmood, 42, of Rasoolpura was found dead in a room of his house.
The doors and windows were locked.
They called the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Forensic Science Agency scene of the crime unit which collected evidence and also recorded statements of witnesses. Police later shifted the body to morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
"Maybe I shoulda studied internal medicine, Sam!"
"Or proctology. Or podiatry. Anything but this!"
Chuhng Circle Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Moaaz Zaffar said they recorded statements of the family and found that the victim’s wife Salma, who had alerted the police, was changing her statements. She told them two unidentified gunnies barged into their house, looted cash and jewellery and shot her husband dead over resistance.
"Dat's what happened, officer."
"They shot him once from the front and once from the back?"
"Which one shot first?"
"All three of them fired at the same time."
"How'd the doors and windows get locked?"
"They had a key."
The ASP said police took the woman into custody for interrogation who initially remained tight-lipped but later confessed to her crime.
"Dat's right! I dunnit an' I'm glad!"
Quoting Salma, he said the woman wanted to marry her husband’s nephew Asif and the two had been planning to kill Mahmood for some time.
"He vas... He vas my BOYFRIEND!"
The ASP said Salma called Asif on Saturday evening and when her husband Mahmood came home they shot him twice in the head, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool. She collected cash and jewellery, handed it to Asif and told him to leave the scene.
"Here! Beat it, lover! We'll be fixed for life!"
He said they constituted a team led by the Nawab Town station house officer who conducted raid at a house in Chungi Amar Sidhu and tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
Asif and also recovered cash, jewellery and pistol from his custody.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
ASP Zaffar claimed the suspect had also confessed to his crime of killing his uncle. He said police later registered a murder case against Asif and Salma on the complaint of the victim’s brother Ashiq.