Malir murder case: Victim's sister, fiance confess

KARACHI: Alveena, the sister of the teenage girl murdered in a reported robbery earlier this week, has confessed to the crime.

Aleena, 16, was brutally murdered with a sharp-edged object during an alleged robbery incident in Saudabad, Malir early Tuesday.

Speaking to the media during a press conference at the Korangi SSP's office on Sunday, Alveena, 18, narrated the circumstances surrounding the incident. 

She accepted killing her sister along with her fiance Mazhar.

"Aleena had my [objectionable] pictures, and she didn’t delete them despite my continuous pleading and continued to blackmail me. I told Mazhar everything then. He also tried to explain things to Aleena and get her to stop but she didn’t," explained Alveena.  

Mazhar also spoke to the media and confessed to the crime. He said Aleena had objectionable pictures of her sister. 

Two other suspects, brothers Abbas and Ahsan, also spoke to the media. They were allegedly involved with Aleena and blackmailed Alveena together. 

Police officials said earlier that Alveena injured herself to make it look like the 'robbers' had injured her over resistance. 

Earlier, explaining the reasons for the murder, police officials said the victim had objected to her elder sister secretly bringing over her fiance and threatened to tell their parents. This resulted in an altercation between the sisters which led the elder sibling to orchestrate Aleena's killing with Mazhar's help. 

Police believe Mazhar is the one who committed the murder after being supplied with a knife by Alveena.

Following the incident, Alveena had said two robbers came in and killed her sister upon resistance. She had said that the thieves took cash, jewelry, and valuables along with them.

According to the girl’s mother, the robbers wanted to kill the elder sister too but fortunately, she was saved.

The police had registered a case against unidentified people in the Saudabad Police Station and arrested the engaged couple, and two accomplices Ahsan and Abbas. 

SSP praises pure police work for solving case 

In a press conference later, SSP Korangi Nauman Siddiqui praised the Saudabad SHO, DSP and SP for their pure police work, and not technology, which solved the case. 

Siddiqui cautioned parents to monitor their children's use of mobile phones.