ROME: A court here has sentenced a Pakistani man and his wife after they were found guilty of murdering their teenage daughter for refusing to marry a court without her will.
According to the case details, Saman Abbas, 18, disappeared from her home near here in Nay 2021 after she rejected her family’s suggestion of marrying a cousin in Pakistan.
A tribunal ruled that the parents ordered the murder of Saman over her refusal and the murder was carried out by an uncle of the girl.
The court sentenced the uncle to 14 years’ imprisonment.
The father of Saman was earlier this year extradited from Pakistan to Italy for trial in the case.
Shabbar Abbas was arrested in his village in Punjab last November on suspicion of killing Saman.
The teenage victim was identified by dental records after human remains were found near her family home in the northern Italian town of Novellara more than a year after her disappearance. Prosecutors believe that the family was angered when they found out that Abbas had a boyfriend in Italy.
They alleged she was killed when she returned to the family home to collect some documents after living nearby for a while under the care of social services.
The father has denied that his daughter is dead. Her uncle was extradited from France to face trial, along with two of her cousins.
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