Karachi woman held for alleged torture, murder of child domestic worker

Woman arrested after a body of 13-year old child was recovered from her residence in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area

Police arrested a woman on Friday for allegedly torturing an underage domestic worker to death at her residence in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area.

According to Express News, the body of the 13-year old boy was recovered from the house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal 13-D area of the metropolis on Thursday.

The employer, who is the owner of the house, had claimed that the minor worker got critically injured and succumbed to his injuries after he fell from an auto-rickshaw.

The father of the minor boy told police that his three children worked at the woman's house. He accused the woman of torturing his children and killing his son. The father added that his other two children also had torture marks on their bodies.

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The brothers of the deceased have also recorded their statement with the police.

Police arrested that woman after registering a case of torture and murder on the complaint of the victims’ father.

Additional IG Karachi Javed Alam Odhu has also suspended DSP Abu Talha and the station house officer (SHO) of the area for their negligence in the case.

SSP East Zubair Shaikh said that the officers were suspended as they showed incompetence and did not register a first information report (FIR) of the murder or conduct a post-mortem examination of the body.