Daughter in law murder:

Top law enforcer involved in murder?

Deceased Waheeda (Palwasha) with her father in law Bani Amin Khan (IG Islamabad) - File Photo

Homer Baloch

Islamabad: The three member bench of Supreme Court has said that the Islamabad Police as well as the KPK police are involved in hiding the evidences of the murder case of IG Islamabad’s daughter in law. This was said during the hearing of the suo motto hearing of the case, according to the court sources.

According to details on Thursday, the three member bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary has said the Islamabad Police as well as the KPK police are involved in hiding the important evidences of the murder case of Waheed, the daughter in law of IG Islamabad Bani Amin Khan, and wife of Ali Amin Khan. The court during the hearing said that the case was not handled according to the law. The court said that the incident was occurred in Peshawar while its FIR was registered in Islamabad surprisingly.

SSP Operations Yaseen Farooque during the hearing stated that the FIR was registered in Shalimar police station on the direction of IG Islamabad. SSP Yaseen Farooq further stated that on the orders of IG Bani Amin Khan, the capital police guarded the grave of Waheed in Islamabad for six days. The Court issued notices to eight police officers including the chiefs of Islamabad and KPK police to appear before the court along with their lawyers in next hearing. The court further said that the according to law, tempering or hiding the evidences are serious for which the responsible should be ready to face the consequences. Next hearing of the case will be on 10th of July.

On 19th May, the daughter-in-law of Inspector General of Islamabad (IGP) Bani Amin Khan was found dead mysteriously in her house, while the sister’s of the deceased alleged IGP’s son Ali for murdering Waheeda. The deceased’s sisters submitted an application against IGP Islamabad Bani Amin Khan, his wife, and Son Ali Amin for allegedly murdering Waheeda by stating that Waheeda was given poison, and Ali Amin Khan along with his father and mother is allegedly involved in murdering his wife, according to Town Police Peshawar.

 Inspector Sardar Hussain, the SHO of Town Police Station Peshawar had stated that the FIR of the case will be registered as after the final report of post mortem arrives. He further stated that however Waheeda’s death was not a murder. In his confusion, SHO Sardar Hussain while providing details of the initial report to The Spokesman had stated that the report also mentions that Waheeda died of falling ‘from the stairs’, but at the next moment he said there were no wound marks on her body, according to the report. This contradiction also exposes the Town Police’s tactics to save the highly influential chief of federal police from the case by hiding the causes of the incident.

SHO Sardar further stated that according to application registered by Waheeda’s family members, she was an open minded lady and was not obeying the restrictions made by her husband and his family to adopt ‘Parda’, so according to them, it was an honor killing (allegedly). On the other hand, some sources insisted that deceased Waheeda was having some issues with her husband and his family regarding inheritance.

In 2012, deceased Waheeda had also submitted an application in Women Police station in which she alleged her husband and father in law for assaulting her physically. The women police station although registered the application, no FIR was registered later.