ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: A woman who had stayed with the man found dead in mysterious circumstances in a city guesthouse on December 28 was arrested by police on Tuesday as a murder suspect.

Police said autopsy on the body of the man, with the initials SA, did not indicate murder but the woman was booked on the charge on a complaint filed by the father of 27-year-old SA, with Kohsar police on Monday.

As the autopsy had failed to ascertain the cause of SA's death, his body parts including heart, spleen, kidney, liver, lungs, brain and contents of stomach were sent to histopathology laboratory and Chemical Examiner Lahore to detect poisoning, if any. Police quoted the suspect woman, a nurse by profession with the initials FB, as saying that she and SA had an affair going on for about two years.

She said the bond became stronger after he proposed marriage to her and they started staying together in guest houses occasionally. SA, according to her, used to take sex-enhancing drugs and injections on such occasions.

She said on the night of December 27, when they were staying in a guest house in F-7/4, he did that twice. After injecting himself the second time around 6:30am December 28, he collapsed and died within minutes.

Confused and scared, she said, she ran away.

Police said that, and the fact that she took away the room’s key and TV remote control with her, made her a suspect.

Guesthouse staff told the police that FB, who was introduced by SA as his wife, left in a taxi around 7:30am, instructing the manager to wake up her husband at 10am and serve him breakfast as he was scheduled to leave for Australia at noon.

Killers, vehicle snatchers

arrested: In a major crackdown, the Tarnol police busted three gangs of car snatchers who murdered the victims after depriving them of their vehicles.

The police also recovered two vehicles, four cellphones and two 30-bore pistols from the possession of the culprits.

Meanwhile, 32 people were taken into custody for selling narcotics and arms/ammunition.