Police believe the 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted before being killed. PHOTO: FILE
The body of a 10-year-old seminary student was found in the Koral area late on Wednesday.
He had allegedly been sexually-assaulted by an unidentified person prior to being killed.
Haris*, a resident of Koral was allegedly sexually assaulted and killed in an under-construction building in the Koral area, said investigation officer Muzafar Shah.
According to details, the body was found in the same building on Wednesday night.
The officer said that Haris had left his house at 8pm to go to the market. After some time when did not return, his family began searching for him and around midnight, they found the body in the building.
Although the police official suspected rape, the complainant did not mention sexual assault in his application.
The officer said that Haris had been withdrawn from a formal school after second grade and enrolled in a local madrassa in the Koral area.
The victim’s family hails from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) but had settled in the Koral area many years back.
Koral Station House Officer (SHO) Shaukat Ali confirmed the recovery of a body and said a murder case had been registered on the complaint of the child’s father, who is a taxi driver.
He the investigation is progressing and the police will track down the culprits soon.
Dr Tanveer Malik, the medico-legal officer at Polyclinic, confirmed to The Express Tribune that deceased was tortured and had bruising indicative of strangulation on his neck.
“The deceased resisted when somebody tried to drag him and he was tortured,” he added.
He said he could not confirm if the boy was sexually assaulted until lab test results were available, which, along with the DNA analysis test, will take up to three weeks.
*Name changed to protect identity
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.
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@Afghan: First of all we are not a "Muslim nation." Second of all I meant it as an expression. I'm not blaming every single Pakistani. I am Pakistani myself.
@Syeda KAzmi. No ones denying that boys are not being raped. However the treatment is different. If a girl gets raped its almost always her fault. She gets blamed that "She was asking for it". That is probably not the case for boys/ men.
And lets not forget about how female rape victims get treated by their own family members. They get blamed for having lose character and often get thrown out of the house or in worse cases getting killed. Again that is usually not how things turn up if a boy or a man is raped.
@Moiz Omar Please do not insult a whole nation of mustlims. It is ironic when people like you make a judgement, it is an act of barbaric and was done by a cruel person must be condemned, however, you cannot justify your argument and insult a nation.. As an Afghan I dont think labling a big group of innocent people for a single barbaric act is fair.
Fall out from watching Bollywood. It is running poison in Pak veins.
Those against death penalty kindly reconsider your position. Justice should also be viewed from the lens of a victim or his/her dear ones. Penalties should not be justified just on the ground of prevention of crime or the society will just get bogged in statistics.
Land of pure ? Indeed...!
Pakistan needs to be broken apart. Only then will such acts end.
Those against death penalty should kindly reconsider their position. Justice should also be seen through the lens of victim or his/her dear ones. Presenting mere statistics about a penalty's justification as a preemptive measure should not be the sole reason of justice.
The murderer f arrested would soon be given bail by the courts. Besides like wadera corruption party government this government has also kept death penalty suspended in love for murderers and to gain a smile from EU so murderers you are free to butcher as many children as you wish the government and EU are with you
This country is unbelievably sick.
Dear Feminists,
Boys are also being subjected to sexual assaults on daily basis in metropolitan cities...they deserve the same uproar for justice..
I don't know what to write.... but this is height of barbarianism
There is no stop to these occurrences. They continue to happen and the government doles out empty statements to placate the citizens' anxiety. Either carry out a public trial or SACK THE FEDERAL INTERIOR MINISTER. Salams
Can Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif please try to develop a sense of ethics and high morality among the people of Punjab? It seem like they won the election on premise of islamization and now practicing cowardly politics of protecting Taliban and Lashkar. Rather than that they need to teach the public basics of morality and spirituality.