GUJRAT: A couple was gunned down in their house over their daughter’s divorce row at Kartowal village in Malakwal police precincts in Mandi Bahauddin district on Friday.

The police sources say that Ashraf Gondal and his wife Zohra Bibi were asleep when the suspect, Qasim, along with his armed accomplices, barged in and shot them dead.

The armed suspects fled the scene after the double murder.

Police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the Malakwal Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where doctors conducted the autopsy. The bodies were later handed over the the heirs.

Police and local sources say that the couple’s daughter had been married to the brother of the main suspect, Qasim. However, their daughter later got divorce through a civil suit.

They said the suspect nurtured a grudge against the victims over the issue and killed them to avenge “the disgrace to his family”.

The police have registered a case against five nominated and three unidentified suspects under sections 302, 109, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the report of Arshad Mehmood, brother of Ashraf Gondal, and started investigation.

Source: Dawn