TAXILA: A 35-year-old woman allegedly took her life after taking poisonous pills over some family dispute in Dhareak villagein limits of Bhattar police station of Attock on Monday.

Quoting family members of the deceased, police said Saeeda Bibi had strained relations with her husband.

On Monday, she consumed poisonous wheat pills and also gave them to her two children.

Her in laws took all the three to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Fatehjang where Saeeda Bibi was declared dead while children were shifted to Rawalpindi in critical condition.

Bhattar police have registered a case and launched investigation.

Man sentenced to death

A local court in Attock on Monday sentenced Mohammad Aslam to death for killing two brothers over old enmity in the limits of Pindigheb police station some five years ago.

Additional sessions judge Irfan Ahmed Sheikh also sentenced his accomplices, Waheed and Naveed, to life imprisonment.

According to the FIR registered under section 302 and 544-A of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), the convicts shot dead two brothers when they were on their way home in village Kaunt after attending an Iftar party in June 2017 and fled away. However, police traced him and sent him behind bars.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2022