Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: Police today arrested mother-in-law and husband of a woman who was allegedly murdered and later burnt in a cowshed in Pahalgam area of Anantnag district last year.
Police said the woman, Shabnam Akhtar, had been killed by her husband, a labourer by profession, and her mother-in-law on October 4 last year.
“The missing lady’s husband Imran Khan, 35, of Halmulla Hapatnad Ashmuqam Pahalgam during questioning by Police accepted that he got his wife killed with the help of his mother on 04-10-2024 and burnt his body in his cowshed,” he said. The Police team visited the scene of crime accompanied with Duty Magistrate Ashmuqam, FSL team and the accused person,” police said.
“During investigation, the investigating team recovered hair, some bones and cell phone of the deceased women and sealed the same before duty Magistrate for further investigation of the case,” he said, adding, “a formal Case (FIR NO 01/2025) U/S 103(1) BNS,61(2) BNS stands registered against the accused person and his mother namely Noor Hassan wife of Mouz-ud-Din Khan.”
“Both the accused have been formally arrested in connection with case and sent behind the bars,” Police said.
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