LAHORE: A girl in Sheikhupura killed her son reportedly over a pretend religion healer’s suggestion.
In response to the police, the lady, a resident of Ferozewala, thrashed to demise her 22-year-old son Zeeshan after the religion healer advised her to take action if she wished “to remain alive”.
The accused was later arrested. Initially, police mentioned, the lady advised them thieves killed Zeeshan after looting him.
She then mentioned supernatural beings killed her son, police added.
Nonetheless, she finally confessed to the crime, telling the police she killed her son as a religion healer had requested her to take action.
Though the lady was arrested, the pretend religion healer, Naveed, remained at massive until this report was filed.
Deadly actions and self-harm over steering from pretend religion healers is a standard prevalence throughout Punjab the place a number of such incidents have taken place.
In February, a lady was killed throughout ‘exorcism’ by two pretend religion healers, whom she was taken to by her husband.
Soraiya Begum, a resident of Sajjadabad in Dera Ghazi Khan had begun speaking to herself. Her husband didn’t suspect her situation to be psychological and as an alternative suspected his spouse to have been possessed by Djinns. To drive the ‘evil’ out he took her to 2 ‘religion healers’ who beat her, burned her and killed her.
In Might of 2016, a person in Chiniot slit his throat over recommendation from a self-claimed ‘non secular healer’.