GUJRAT: The case of an Italian-Pakistani woman’s death has reached to a decisive point as the forensic report, on Wednesday, revealed that Sana Cheema was strangled to death.
Sana Cheema was reportedly killed in the case of honor killing on April 18, 2018. According to the forensic report of Punjab Laboratory the 26-year-old didn’t die her natural death as the bone of her neck was broken, which confirms that she was murdered.
Police have arrested the accused in the case of murder. “On April 18, Sana Cheema was killed by her father and brother because they wanted to marry her off to his relative but the deceased wanted to marry of her own choice in Italy”, police officials said.
The girl’s father, identified as Ghulam Mustafa and his son Adanan Mustafa along with Mazhar Iqbal (deceased’s uncle) plotted to kill Sana a day before her return flight to Italy, according to the police. “The family pretended to demonstrate Sana’s death as natural death and buried the body in West Mangowal area of District Gujrat.”
On April 24, it was alleged that Sana’s own family has killed her over the matter of ‘honor’. In order to investigate the matter, her body was exhumed on April 25 for conducting postmortem.
This case of honor killing also received considerable attention on social media in Italy. People voiced their protest and demanded justice for Sana Cheema with hashtags such as #JusticeforSana and #TruthforSana.
