Category: Child Abuse

ARACHI   –   In a shocking incident, a six-year-old girl was reportedly found alive in a closed sack near the graveyard located at Sherpao colony area of Karachi’s Landhi. The police spokesperson disclosed that the minor girl – identified as Sadaf – was subjected to torture while the suspect(s) also made an attempt to rape her. The spokesperson added that the girl has been shifted to Jinnah Hospital for immediate medical assistance. Meanwhile, the police – after registering a case on the complaint of the girl’s family – has arrested a suspect on the identification of the victim girl for his alleged involvement in the case.

Source: The Nation

TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra Additional District and Sessions Judge Abbas Rasool Warraich sentenced a man for life imprisonment and imposed Rs500,000 fine on him for kidnapping and raping a minor girl.

Convict Ghulam Dastgir of Chak 342-JB, Nawan Lahore, had kidnapped 10-year-old girl raped her on Feb 5, 2021. He was brought to the court from the district jail where the judge awarded him life term in the case. He was asked to pay the compensation to the girl’s family.

Source: Dawn

BAHAWALPUR: The Lodhran police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested two suspects, who had abducted a two-and-a-half-years old daughter of a businessman for Rs600 million ransom on Eid day.

At a hurriedly-called presser, District Police Officer (DPO) Kamran Mumtaz said the two suspects — Zeeshan and his friend Kamran — were arrested by police with the help of geo-fencing and IT gadgets operated by police’s IT expert Imran Cheema.

He added that the prime suspect, Zeeshan, was a friend of abducted girl Hurian’s father Waqas.

He said Zeeshan kidnapped Hurian at the gate of Waqas’ house on Eid day and drove her away in a car.

The DPO said that to avoid being traced, the suspects had left their mobile phones at their residences, when they committed the crime.

They had demanded Rs600m ransom

He said that to trace the suspects, the police experts screened footage of over 400 CCTV cameras, and learnt that they took the girl from Lodhran to Bahawalpur.

The police, he said, blocked all the exit points of Bahawalpur, confining the suspects to the city area. As a result, the suspects were forced to drop the toddler outside Bahawalpur Zoo during night time and surrender to the police.

The DPO said that a car without number plate, used by the suspects in the crime, has also been recovered and police were interrogating them.

He announced that the police investigation team which traced the suspects would be rewarded.

The DPO said the other accomplices of the kidnappers would also be arrested soon.

Source: Dawn

KARACHI: Sexual assault on minor girls aged three to eight years was on the rise in the city, which must be stopped, it was observed in a meeting chaired by Karachi Commissioner Syed Hassan Naqvi on Wednesday.

Three committees headed by the deputy commissioners were set up to control rights violations.

The meeting, which was attended by Secretary Human Rights department, Deputy Commissioners, SSPs concerned, decided to coordinate with Sindh Human Rights Department in containing human rights violations. The meeting was informed that incidents of child abuse, acid throwing on women and sexual assault on innocent girls aged three to eight years were on the rise which must be stopped by taking stringent measures. The meeting also decided that all resources would be utilized to stop such grave violations and government policies would be implemented in letter and spirit.

Three committees headed by Deputy Commissioners would look into the issues in all 7 districts and Human Rights Desks would also be established at the DC offisces.

In order to increase coordination, a Whatsapp group would be created to ensure immediate contact with DCs, SSPs and Human Rights Department.

Source: Express Tribune

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has rejected bail plea of a suspect arrested on charges of sexually assaulting and killing a five-year-old girl in Dir Lower district few months ago.

A single-member bench consisting of Justice Shahid Khan observed that keeping in view the circumstantial evidence including DNA and serology analysis reports prima facie could not be ruled out the involvement of petitioner in the commission of the offence rather his connectivity with the same could no way be underestimated.

The bench ruled that the petitioner, Newas Ali Khan, was prima facie connected with the commission of the offence, which also fell within the prohibitory provision of section 497 of Code of Criminal Procedure, therefore, he was not entitled to the concession of bail.

The bench directed that the trial court should ensure early conclusion of the trial, preferably within four months subject to the cooperation of the defence and prosecution to meet the ends of justice.

Directs lower court to ensure early conclusion of trial

The FIR of the occurrence was registered at Munda police station in Dir Lower on January 4, 2024 on the complaint of the deceased girl’s father.

The SHO of the police station, Aqal Ameen, claimed that he received information that body of a minor girl was lying near the bank of the Panjkora River, which was shifted to a hospital in Timergara.

He stated when he reached the hospital he found father of the deceased girl present there, who initially lodged a complaint about unnatural death of his daughter against unidentified person.

The complainant stated that his daughter left home a day earlier in the evening and went missing. He stated that they searched for her but she was not found. The next day, he said, body of the deceased was found near bank of the river.

The next day the complainant recorded his statement before a magistrate and named the petitioner for commission of the offence. The petitioner counsel contended that there was no eyewitness to the occurrence and his client was not named in the FIR. He added that the petitioner was falsely implicated in the case.

Rahimullah, an assistant advocate general, and lawyers for the complainant, Aziz Ahmad and Nehal Yousafzai, contended that the evidence on record fully connected the petitioner with the commission of the offence.

The bench observed that medical evidence so collected by the investigation officer as forensic DNA and serology analysis report of the garments of the victim and the petitioner was found positive.

Earlier, an additional session judge in Dir Lower, Amjad Hussain, had also rejected bail plea of the petitioner on April 23, 2024. The judge had ruled that the victim as a minor was subjected to an inhuman act for which the petitioner was specifically charged.

Source: Dawn