Swinging into action, Dadu police have arrested the parents as well as two other suspects for their possible hand in the sordid incident.According to police, the incident occurred on the night between November 21 and 22 in the Sindh district, which borders the Balochistan province. Upon receiving information, Dadu’s senior superintendent of police directed police officials from Wahi Pandhi — an area in Johi taluka of the district — to gather information about the unfortunate episode. Wahi Pandhi police first picked up a cleric who led the police to the house of the girl’s parents. ‘We are further verifying facts but we have arrested the deceased girl’s parents and a maulvi who had led the funeral prayer, as well as another man who had facilitated her burial,” said the top police officer. According to him, all four are being quizzed.
A first information report (FIR) regarding the incident has been filed on behalf of the state by the police on the complaint of Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Ghulam Qadir Gopang. While the parents, who were living in an area called Shahi Makaan, claim that the girl had died ‘accidentally due to a landslide on the mountain’, the FIR says the girl’s father, his relative, and four others had ‘hatched a conspiracy for the murder’. Authorities need to separate grain of truth from the proverbial chaff to arrive at a just conclusion.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2019.
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