Couple confesses to abducting, raping girls in Karachi

Police claim to find obscene videos, evidence of them selling kidnapped children


Our Correspondent September 12, 2020
PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI:

A couple arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a 10-year-old girl, who went missing from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), has confessed to wheedling minor girls with smooth talk in Karachi and taking them to remote areas in Sindh, investigation police said on Friday.

According to the police, the arrested man, Ghulam Rasool, would allegedly rape girls after kidnapping them. He and his wife were arrested during a raid at their house in Dhabeji, after reports of a 10-year-old girl going missing from JPMC surfaced.

Besides the 10-year-old girl, they had found another girl, also abducted from the same hospital, at the couple's house during the raid.

The police said the couple revealed during investigation that they would look for girls from middle-and-low-income backgrounds, and especially those whose families were witnessed taking free medicines at the hospital.

The police said they discovered obscene videos on the arrested couples' mobile phones and also evidence of them being involved in selling girls they had abducted. However, the matter is being probed further, they added.

COMMENTS (1)

Dr MH Chowdhury | 3 years ago | Reply

The State has failed to protect vulnerable groups: women, kids & babies. It’s a shame for a civil society.

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