Workshop owner held over child’s death

RAWALPINDI:

A workshop owner has been taken into custody after the mysterious death of a child working in his workshop.

Police said that the 12-year-old child, Kamran, who worked at a workshop was found dead under mysterious circumstances within the limits of Waris Khan police.

The workshop owner had shifted the body to his hometown in Multan, where the family suspected that the child had been tortured.

The family brought back the body to Rawalpindi and reported the matter to the police.

Waris Khan police arrested the workshop owner named Munir and started an investigation into the matter.

According to the police, the death of the child was not reported to the police by the workshop owner, but the family brought it back to Rawalpindi after finding torture marks on the body.

The police shifted the body to the hospital for a post-mortem.

A police spokesperson said that the cause of death will be ascertained in the post-mortem and further proceedings will be carried out in the light of the report.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 6^th, 2023.