Faisalabad City Tandlianwala police have claimed to solve blind murder of a teenager girl and arrested his father on murder charges.
Police spokesman said that the incident occurred in Chak No.421-GB Mohallah Rasoolpura Tandlianwala where 18-year-old girl Anum was strangulated to death under mysterious circumstances on August 26, 2026.
However, girl’s father Azhar Iqbal staged a drama and filed a complaint, pretending that his teenager daughter Anum was kidnapped and killed by a youth Umair Sarfraz of the same locality and his accomplices as she refused to develop illicit relations with the youth.
However, SHO City Tandlianwala police station Ahmed Muneel Shah over suspicion took Azhar Iqbal into custody and interrogated him.
During preliminary interrogation, the accused Azhar Iqbal confessed the offence and told the police that his daughter had illicit relations with a youth Umair Sarfraz and his reprimanded her repeatedly but in vain.
Over this issue, the accused father gave his daughter a narcotic substance and subsequently strangled her to death.
After murder, the accused disposed of her body in a deserted well near the locality in an attempt to conceal the facts of the crime.
The accused Azhar Iqbal was sent behind bars while further investigation was under progress, police spokesman added.