Elderly man, girl ‘tortured’ to death

Waheed Ali told the Rawat police that his parents and he worked at a kiln owned by Fazlur Rahman

RAWALPINDI:

An elderly man and a young girl were allegedly tortured to death in separate incidents in the city on Friday, police said. The police registered cases of murder and launched investigations.

Nazia Shaheen complained to the Naseerabad police that her eldest daughter Zara Shehzadi got angry with her younger sisters and left home. She further stated that she and her two daughters were present at home when her neighbour Amin Khan entered her house while carrying her daughter Zara on his shoulders and threw her daughter on the bed. Amin pretended Zara had met an accident and fled.

Nazia spotted marks of injuries on her daughter’s head and forehead and established that she was dead.

In another incident, Waheed Ali told the Rawat police that he and his parents worked at a kiln owned by Fazlur Rahman. The complainant said one Sarfraz put his hand in his father’s mouth and choked his breath besides hitting the old man on the stomach with his knees.

Meanwhile, Sajid and Riaz gripped Waheed and his brother Saqib and kept kicking and punching them.

Waheed further stated that his father fell unconscious, and was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2024.