 [DAWN] SHIKARPUR: An HIV positive woman was strangled by her husband and her body was hanged from a tree in Gharo Rind village in the Dakhan area on Wednesday.
After receiving this information from relatives of deceased Kareema Rind, 30 and mother of five children, the Dakhan police took the body into custody and shifted it to hospital. Later, the body was handed over to relatives after its post-mortem examination at Garhi Yasin Taluka Hospital.
The police registered an FIR against Bahadur Rind, the husband of the dear departed, his brother Darya Khan Rind and relative Johar Rind on the complaint of Akbar Rind, brother of Ms Kareema.
Bahadur was jugged
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but the two other suspects fled the village along with their families.
According to preliminary investigation, Ms Kareema was declared HIV positive recently after her blood screening. Her husband decided to marry another woman but Kareema raised objection.
"This morning the husband strangled [her] with a rope and then hung her from a tree outside his home," Roshan Ali, a police officer in Shikarpur, told AFP.
According to a local police officer, her husband accused Ms Kareema of having an extramarital affair.
Further investigation is under way.
Gharo Rind Village is located near Ratodero in Larkana district, the epicentre of the HIV outbreak where thousands of people have been screened in the last month and hundreds have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, adds AFP. 
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