The city was overcome with panic and fear as soon as the horrific murder news spread. However, by evening, the police claimed to have solved the case by making an arrest for the quadruple homicide of a family member.
Dawn was informed by City SSP Arif Aziz that the flat on the seventh floor of Zainab Arcade, Bantwa Street, within the jurisdiction of the Baghdadi police station, contained four bodies with slit throats.
Shamshad Farooq, 60, her 21-year-old daughter Madiha Farooq, 20-year-old daughter-in-law Ayesha Sameer, and 12-year-old granddaughter Alina Razzaq were identified as the victims.
The suspect, according to the investigation, committed the murders of his mother, sister, sister-in-law, and niece in response to their TikTok videos. The bodies were transported to the Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital in Karachi for medical and legal procedures.
Dr. Summaiya Syed, a police surgeon, said that the victims’ necks had deep cuts, but there was no resistance. This recommends that all casualties might have been inebriated prior to being killed.
The victim’s husband, Muhammad Farooq, told the police that when he got home from work on Friday night, he found the apartment locked from the inside. He claimed that even though he knocked on the door several times, no one answered. Meanwhile, his son Ali got home from work and was able to open the door. Mr. Farooq claimed that they discovered the dead bodies of his wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter inside to their horror.
Syed Asad Raza, DIG-South, told Dawn later that the police had arrested Muhammad Bilal Kutchi, Shamshad’s son, for killing his family members for “honor.”
Police sources uncovered that suspect Bilal was confined close to the Local Breakwater Scaffold with blade wounds on his hands.
They expressed that during cross examination, he admitted to killing his relatives, refering to seethe over their TikTok recordings, which he guaranteed spread “indecency and impropriety”.
The DIG added that the suspect had just returned from Saudi Arabia, where he had gone to perform Umrah, and that he also believed his family was to blame for his wife’s breakup.
In the interim, Sindh Boss Clergyman Syed Murad Ali Shah and Home Pastor Zia Lanjar paid heed to the frightful occurrence and guided police to go to lengths to capture the killer(s).
