Suicide or Murder? Police arrests four family members in Budgam

CHARAR-I-SHARIEF — Police have arrested four family members in connection with the death of a woman in central Kashmir’s Charar-e-Sharif area of Budgam.

Pertinently, during the sacred night of ‘Qadar’, a woman was found hanging in the premises of her husband’s home at Darwan Nowgam area of Charar-e-Sharif.

Prima facie, it seemed a case of suicide, however, the family members of woman accused the in-laws of the woman of murdering her.

Subsequently, taking cognizance of the complaint registered by the family members of the deceased woman, police registered an FIR vide number 40/202 and started investigation.

Police sources said that four persons including the husband (Shafi Mir) of the woman, her father-in-law (Ghulam Muhammad Mir), mother-in-law (Zeba Bano) and sister-in-law (Mubeena Akhtar) have been arrested so far.

The accused women were sent to Women’s Police Station Rambagh while rest are lodged at Police Station Charar-e-Sharif.