[DAWN] An eight months pregnant woman who had contracted a marriage of her own will was rubbed out allegedly by her brother over 'honour' in Sindh's Khairpur district on Friday evening, police said.The victim, a mother of one, had willingly married a man from a caste different than hers in a court of Sukkur in August 2016 without her family’s approval.
Apparently angered by the move, the 25-year-old woman's brother opened fire on her while she was asleep in their family home, located within the limits of Wada Machhoon cop shoppe in Khairpur.
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the prime accused on Saturday, and registered a first information report (FIR) under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of Pakistain Penal Code against him, the victim's father and three others on a complaint of SHO Bagh Chand Oad on behalf of the state.
Addressing a presser in Khairpur, the husband of the dear departed woman revealed that the victim was taken away from his house six months ago by her family on the assurance that they would not hurt her and would bring her back after the delivery of their second child.
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they killed her after the woman's father during a jirga declared her 'kari', or a woman who has brought dishonour to her family, and asked his son to kill his sister, the husband alleged.
According to the husband, his wife who was eight months pregnant was killed a day before being produced in the Sindh High Court in Sukkur, where he had filed a petition seeking her recovery after finding out about the jirga’s pronouncement against the victim.