Islamabad sources reported that the police arrested the victim Sana Cheema's brother, father and uncle after the submission of the report by the Punjab Forensics and Science Laboratory. It stated that Cheema's cervical bone was fractured. Meanwhile the Express Tribune reported on the 26 year old was murdered in her hometown of Mangowal for "honor".
Moreover the police said the girl's father, identified as Ghulam Mustafa, wanted to marry her off to one of his relatives in Pakistan but Cheema wanted to get married in Italy. Accordingly the father then took on board his son, Adnan Mustafa, and brother, Mazhar Iqbal, and hatched a plan to kill her and finally the deceased's family labeled her death as a "natural one" until reports stating otherwise surfaced online and in Italian media, prompting further investigations.
Furthermore the autopsy was conducted after her body was exhumed to take samples for forensic analysis. Moreover a private hospital had denied during the investigation that it had admitted and treated the Pakistani-Italian woman. Further the hospital had stated that she had visited on April 11 as an out-patient and left after being prescribed medicine for nausea. As per report Cheema's parents had also submitted forged documents to the Italian Embassy.
