Student arrested for allegedly killing principal

LAHORE: Lahore police have arrested a student for allegedly killing his school’s principal in Sundar area of the provincial capital.

According to police, suspect Rizwan, a ninth-grade student, was reportedly engaged in a hidden relationship with one of his teachers. Enraged at the principal for complaining to his parents about his affair, he killed her and wounded her sister with a knife.

In his initial statement to investigators, he confessed to having committed the offence and said he was infuriated over her complaint to his parents about his relationship.

Last year in January, a grade 12 student at a private college in Charsadda had shot his college principal dead after being rebuked for skipping school.

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Faheem Shah had allegedly murdered Sareer Ahmed, principal of the private Islamia College in Charsadda, after an argument with him for missing a number of classes, according to police.

Faheem had skipped the classes to attend a sit-in staged by Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah late last year in the federal capital against a change in wording of an oath for electoral candidates.