A man in Peshawar’s Mathra area allegedly tortured wife and then cuts off her hair after accusing her of not covering her head during a wedding ceremony, po
lice said on Friday.
Police has registered first information report of the incident on the woman’s complaint at Mathra po
lice station on March 27.
The woman in her complaint to po
lice stated that the incident occurred earlier this month when she was at the wedding of her husband’s cousin. Her “d
upatta slipped off her head” while she was greeting the relatives, which was seen by her husband.
She said that after she returned home, her husband, who is a member of the Malakand Levies force first aggressively approached her over not covering her head and then started punchi
ng and kicking her.
“Th
ere was no one else in the room except my three-year-old child and so he continued beating me,” the police official quoted the woman as saying. She claimed her husband later grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off all of her hair as her punishment.
She said she was filing a complaint of the incident with a delay because her husband had threatened to kill her if she told anyone about it, and it was only now that she found the chance to approach police.
Police officials said that an FIR has been registered against the his husba
nd and he will soon be arrested.
.jpg)
