Karachi woman admits chopping up body of elderly man

KARACHI: The woman who was arrested in connection with the murder of a 65-year-old man has admitted she had killed and chopped the body of an elderly man into pieces at an apartment in Saddar area of Karachi, ARY News reported on Saturday.

According to details, the police produced the woman before the judicial magistrate (South) and requested her physical remand for investigation. The court handed over the accused to the police for four days and directed the investigation officer to produce her on completion of the remand along with a progress report.

The investigation officer told the court that the woman’s finger prints and DNA sample have been taken for forensic tests, results of which are expected to be received in a few weeks.

The suspect was smiling inside the court room during proceedings and while talking to media outside court she admitted killing an elderly man and dismembering his body.

Earlier, the police said the 40-year-old woman killed Shaikh Mohammad Sohail, 65, and then chopped his body into pieces at his apartment in Saddar area. The deceased had been living with the woman for the past several years.

The police had found the decapitated body of the man in the apartment.