Daily Times

KARACHI: Police officials have claimed that the sister of the teenage girl murdered in a reported robbery earlier this week was behind the incident. Aleena, 16, was brutally murdered with a sharp-edged object during an alleged robbery incident in Saudabad, Malir on Tuesday. Police sources said on Sunday that the victim’s sister, Alveena, has confessed that she killed her sister with the help of her fiancée Mazhar, and then injured herself to make it look like ‘robbers’ had injured her over resistance. Explaining the reasons for the murder, police sources said the victim had objected to her elder sister secretly bringing over her fiancée and threatened to tell their parents. This resulted in an altercation between the sisters which led the elder sibling to orchestrate Aleena’s killing with Mazhar’s help. Police believe Mazhar is the one who committed the murder after being supplied with a knife by Alveena. Both Alveena and Mazhar are in police custody and have reportedly confessed to the crime. Following the incident, Alveena had said two robbers came in and killed her sister upon resistance. She had said that the thieves took cash, jewellery, and valuables along with them. According to the girl’s mother, the robbers wanted to kill the elder sister too, but fortunately, she was spared.

Published in Daily Times, December 11^th 2017.