SUKKUR: A landlord shot a Hindu peasant girl dead here on Thursday after she refused to develop illicit relations with him. Sources in police said in village Shadiply of Umerkot district, a landlord Khadim Shar used to force peasant girl Shirimiti Kapu Kolhi to develop illicit relations with him but when she refused the landlord shot her dead. The police shifted the body to a local hospital.
Meanwhile, Ramesh, father of the murdered girl, registered an FIR with the Shadiply police station against the landlord. He maintained in the complaint that Khadim Shar had been repeatedly forcing Shirimiti to submit for sexual relations and she kept refusing. Station House Officer Rasheed Chanio said a case had been registered and investigation was underway.