‘I repeatedly asked my parents not to marry me’: Pakistani bride kills 17 with poisoned lassi in botched plot to murder husband
Accused said her love affair with her boyfriend continued after she got married
Pakistani police arrested a newly married woman on murder charges after she allegedly poisoned her husband’s milk and it inadvertently killed 17 other people in a remote village, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
District police chief Sohail Habib Tajak said a judge allowed police to question the woman, 21-year-old Aasia Bibi, for two weeks to determine whether it was the woman’s decision or her boyfriend had incited her to kill her husband by poisoning.
“This incident took place last week and our officers have made progress by arresting a woman and her lover in connection with this murder case, which was complicated and challenging for us,” he said.
Tajak said Bibi was married against her will in September in a village near the town of Ali Pur, 100km south of Multan, a city in the eastern Punjab province.
He said Bibi was not happy with her husband and wanted to return to her parents’ home.
I repeatedly asked my parents not to marry me against my will as my religion, Islam, also allows me to choose the man of my choice
Tajak said the woman obtained a poisonous substance from her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, last week and mixed it in milk for her husband, who refused to drink it. But the woman’s mother-in-law later used the tainted milk to make a traditional yogurt-based drink and served it to 27 members of her extended family, who fell unconscious and were hospitalised.