9-year-old gang raped and murdered

Police officials have arrested three men on suspicion for the assault.


Owais Raza January 17, 2011

MULTAN: A post mortem report of a 9-year-old girl revealed that she had been gang raped and murdered.

Three people have been identified in the medical report and doctors at Nishtar Hospital said that the child had been hand cuffed and cut with a knife before she was raped several times.

“The medical report confirms that the victim died during the assault and at least three different men were involved,” said Nishtar Hospital's Dr Shahid.

The victim was a resident of Khudaad Colony and the eldest of five children.

Her father told police officials that his daughter was kidnapped on Thursday and that he had registered an FIR with the police. “On Saturday evening I found her body in a garbage dump outside my house,”  he said.

“A group of children found the body and my son and other daughter recognised who it was,” he said, adding that his children told him about the body.

The girl's body was handed over to Nishtar Hospital in Multan. Medical officials conducted a post mortem and handed the body over to the police. Cantt Police Station superintendent of police (SP) Mehmoodul Hassan assured that stern action would be taken against the criminals involved in the case. “The medical report confirms that at least three men were involved and we have begun questioning neighbours about any suspicious activity in the area,” he said.

Police officials have apprehended three suspects in this regard.

The mens' DNA and blood samples have been sent to a lab for testing. Residents of the area have protested against the incident and said that the men responsible should be ‘hanged in public’.

“The criminals will be punished according to the law,” the SP said, adding “but there is immense public pressure on us to catch them and hand them over to the public.”

Police have lodged FIR No 24/2011 in the Cantt Police Station under Section-302 by the father of the victim. The victim had two brothers and two sisters and her mother is currently in the hospital.

“My wife had a heart attack when she found out. She is still in the hospital and the doctors don’t know if she will survive,” the victim's father said.

Police officials have said that they are presently waiting for the DNA results of the suspects to proceed with their investigation. “We have three suspects in custody and are waiting on the evidence,” the SP said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2011.

Update: January 17, 2011

The Express Tribune Lahore desk has clarified that the names of the victims had been changed to protect their identity in the original print edition. The error was an omission of the notification stating this.

COMMENTS (9)

Sade | 13 years ago | Reply goodness that poor child god be with her hope their famail ecspecially recovers :(
sobia | 13 years ago | Reply where r v heading to .....ahhhh may Allah keep everyone safe in this world of vultures :(
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