Two daughters have been charged with felonious aggravated assault for binding their father’s limbs and sparking the blaze that killed him due to extensive burns.
It happened in the Civil Line Police Station area of Mughal Chowk in Gujranwala. The victim was about 45 year old Ali Akbar, a man from the Zabul province who had been married three times and has 12 children. He was staying with his two remaining wives and children in a rented home at the time of the disaster because his first wife had died.
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The two accused daughters aged 16 years and 12 years respectively, confessed during custody as per police reports. They alleged that their father attacked them physically, this forced them to cause such harm to themselves. The girls alleged to have Wake slept while the other one poured petrol on him then they lit a match stick to burn him.
A case has been lodged against the daughters while Ali Akbar’s two wives have also been made co-accused. Police are still at the scene and have said they will conduct medical examinations on the daughters to confirm their accusations.
The sisters of Ali Akbar, Balqis Bibi and Fareeda denied the allegations against brother. News Guru interview with them disclosed that Ali Akbar had been planning to marry of one of his daughters with his nephew after the death of their sister in Faisalabad. This plan is said to have caused quarrels in the family since both wives were against the plan.
The sisters also accused after dousing their father in petrol and setting him on fire, the daughters first said that he had received the burns from a heater explosion. This is just a false explanation, which for a certain period of time helped them escape legal consequences of their activities.