Shikarpur Man Chokes Wife For Being Diagnosed With AIDS

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Shikarpur man chokes wife for being diagnosed with AIDS

Bahadur Rind was upset after his wife Zareena was diagnosed with HIV AIDS

Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 29th May, 2019) A man in Shikarpur murdered his wife after she was diagnosed with AIDS.

The incident took place in Tharo Rind area of Shikarpur where a man strangled his wife with the help of his brother for being ‘characterless’ after she was found HIV positive.

The man has been identified as Bahadur Rind. His wife Zareena’s dead body was found hanged at a tree outside his house.

The locals said that Bahadur Rind was upset after his wife Zareena was diagnosed with HIV AIDS in recent tests. He feared that other members of his family will contract the disease from his wife.

He was forcing wife to go back to her parents’ place so he could marry another woman but Zareena resister. This led to a domestic fight; following which he strangled her to death.

Police reached to scene of the crime and shifted the dead body to Garhi Yaseen Taluka Hospital for post-mortem.

Police arrested accused Bahadur Rind. He is in custody in Dakhan police station. Police is also conducting raids for arrest of the co-accused in the incident.

The number of HIV patients in Sindh increasing with every passing day as four more cases of HIV were reported from Shikarpur on Tuesday.

At least 356 people were screened for the potentially life-threatening condition of HIV in Shikarpur’s village of Dakhan, from which four were tested positive.

With the latest inclusion of four more HIV patients, the number of affected people in the district Shikarpur has jumped to 36

Mahnoor Sheikh

The writer is News Editor, Pakistan Point. She has graduated in Mass Communication and has worked in various media houses