Police validate child maid torture
Reaffirms the victim was at the judge’s residence on December 28
PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
The final police inquiry report reaffirms that the accused Judge Khurram Ali Khan employed a minor girl as housemaid at his house and his wife Maheen Zafar directly inflicted repeated abuse and injury on the girl.
The final progress report of the police submitted before the Supreme Court states that the minor girl received 21 wounds in total in the previous weeks and months and they were not self-inflicted. It added that independent witnesses gave evidence of her injuries and presence in the judge’s house on December 28, 2016.
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The police said that the injured girl was in Khan’s possession at 5pm on Dec 28 and that he did not provide her with appropriate medical treatment for ‘acute injuries’ and the matter was not reported to ‘appropriate authorities’ for nearly 18 hours till she was recovered by the police on December 29 at around 10:30am.
The police report stated that as per the DNA report, Muhammad Azam and Nusrat Bibi are the actual parents of the victim. After the collection of medical evidence, it added, complete charge sheet against the lady suspect, Maheen Zafar, has been submitted before the trial court on January 21.
The Supreme Court will take up the case today (Wednesday).
Witness statements
During the course of investigation four independent persons [neighbours of the suspects] joined the investigation process and recorded their statements.
A servant in a neighbouring house told the police that a minor child, called Tayyaba, was employed in the neighbouring house and in the last days of December 2016, he saw her hungry and gave her some food with the permission of his employers.
Another neighbour told the investigators that she often saw the minor girl in miserable condition, adding that “family of Khurram Ali Khan was not providing proper meal to her and they provided her food items on different occasions.”
On December 28, she said, she saw the girl in injured condition and upon her inquiry “she informed her that Maheen Baji beat/burned her for a missing broom.”
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The third witness, who took the pictures, told the police that she was called by Tayyab’s neighbours who told her that child maid was brutally tortured.
The fourth witness, in her statement, revealed that judge had not provided a quilt to the child maid and that “she was living in a miserable condition”. “The worn clothes were very dirty and usually it seems that she was being kept hungry.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 25th, 2017.
The final police inquiry report reaffirms that the accused Judge Khurram Ali Khan employed a minor girl as housemaid at his house and his wife Maheen Zafar directly inflicted repeated abuse and injury on the girl.
The final progress report of the police submitted before the Supreme Court states that the minor girl received 21 wounds in total in the previous weeks and months and they were not self-inflicted. It added that independent witnesses gave evidence of her injuries and presence in the judge’s house on December 28, 2016.
Judge faces disciplinary proceedings for torture of 10-year-old house maid
The police said that the injured girl was in Khan’s possession at 5pm on Dec 28 and that he did not provide her with appropriate medical treatment for ‘acute injuries’ and the matter was not reported to ‘appropriate authorities’ for nearly 18 hours till she was recovered by the police on December 29 at around 10:30am.
The police report stated that as per the DNA report, Muhammad Azam and Nusrat Bibi are the actual parents of the victim. After the collection of medical evidence, it added, complete charge sheet against the lady suspect, Maheen Zafar, has been submitted before the trial court on January 21.
The Supreme Court will take up the case today (Wednesday).
Witness statements
During the course of investigation four independent persons [neighbours of the suspects] joined the investigation process and recorded their statements.
A servant in a neighbouring house told the police that a minor child, called Tayyaba, was employed in the neighbouring house and in the last days of December 2016, he saw her hungry and gave her some food with the permission of his employers.
Another neighbour told the investigators that she often saw the minor girl in miserable condition, adding that “family of Khurram Ali Khan was not providing proper meal to her and they provided her food items on different occasions.”
On December 28, she said, she saw the girl in injured condition and upon her inquiry “she informed her that Maheen Baji beat/burned her for a missing broom.”
Father of 10-year-old housemaid ‘forgives’ judge for torturing daughter
The third witness, who took the pictures, told the police that she was called by Tayyab’s neighbours who told her that child maid was brutally tortured.
The fourth witness, in her statement, revealed that judge had not provided a quilt to the child maid and that “she was living in a miserable condition”. “The worn clothes were very dirty and usually it seems that she was being kept hungry.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 25th, 2017.