Police arrest key suspect in Orangi Town rape, murder case

Suspects nominated in FIR are relatives of victim

KARACHI: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a minor girl belonging to the Orangi Town area of the metropolis.

The accused, Faqir Mohammad, was nominated in the FIR registered by the victim's family and was absconding since the incident. Police sources said that the accused also confessed to the crime. The other two nominees named in the FIR are already in police custody on physical remand, officials confirmed.

The victim, a resident of Baloch Para in Orangi Town, went missing on Sunday, April 15 when she left home to play in the area as per routine. Her body was found from a garbage dump in MPR Colony in Manghopir.



Police recovered the minor's decomposed body from a garbage dump on Monday evening after her family had lodged a complaint.

Police raided and arrested two of the three suspects – Rahim and Fazal – named in the FIR, while the remaining suspect, Faqir Mohammad, managed to escape.

Those nominated in the FIR are relatives of the victim. “Unfortunately, these people [nominated suspects] are our relatives and they did it to avenge an old personal enmity,” the victim’s father narrated. “These killers should be hanged publicly,” he said.

The victim’s body was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Her initial autopsy report confirmed that the minor was sexually abused before being strangled to death. The victim also bore torture marks on her body. The police collected samples of the two arrested suspects, which have been sent to the laboratory for DNA testing.

A large number of people, including the family and relatives of the victim, held a protest over the incident while they were on their way to the MPR Colony graveyard to bury the minor girl.



The protest also took the life of a father of six children, who was believed to be affiliated with a political party, after the police and protesters clashed with each other. Police took action against the protesters using teargas shells, charging the protesters with batons, aerial firing and allegedly straight firing on the protesters.