CJ takes suo motu notice of 11-year-old girl’s rape, murder

Chief justice orders IG police to appear before court and submit a report.


Azam Khan February 18, 2013
News reports said the 11-year-old girl was gang-raped and burnt to death in Islamabad. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took a suo moto notice on Monday against the murder of an 11-year-old girl who was gang-raped and burnt to death in Islamabad.

The action was taken after Registrar’s Office filed a note citing news reports of unidentified people raping a girl and setting her body on fire before dumping it in a ditch.

The chief justice issued a written order for the case to be put up in the court on February 19 and issued notices to Inspector General (IG) of the Islamabad police.

He has also asked for the production of a written report from the city's top cop.

News reports, cited by the Registrar's Office, stated that the police found the girl’s body in Sector I-9/1 of Islamabad. The girl was a resident of Bhara Kahu and had gone missing on February 13. An FIR was registered against 55-year-old Qaiser Ali and his wife Mehak Qaiser after the girl’s father accused them of kidnapping his daughter.

The case was registered against the nominated accused under Section 302 in the Industrial Area Police Station on February 17.

According to the news reports, the incident had sparked protests in the locality while members of the civil society called for the arrest of the accused and demanded a death penalty for all those involved.

COMMENTS (17)

Marisol | 11 years ago | Reply

ANOTHER CASE OF DERELICTION OF DUTY OF POLICE: This particular SEXUAL CRIME is so vile, so evil and so shockingly hideous! It is precisely why this hateful scourge of evil rapists in your society must be dealt with by the harshest of means--the death penalty! The entire world is watching and now fully recognizes the poisonous, depraved, barbaric infestation that is ravaging your country. These animals are worse than the TALIBAN in Afghanistan. SHAME ON THE POLICE for not taking this case seriously and searching for the little girls right away. Aged 6, 8 and 11, they were went missing on February 14. The mother reported this to the police, who failed to take action for two days. It was then that a villager found them dead at the bottom of a village well. Police shamefully ruled the deaths 'accidental' or 'suicide'. Villagers had to demand action, by blocking the roads and burning tires, before a medical examination revealed the girls had been brutally raped, sodomized, and murdered. WHAT A TERRIBLE DERELICTION OF DUTY OF INDIA'S POLICE!! Had they searched for the girls immediately, there is a likelihood that they could have been found ALIVE!!!

Nazia | 11 years ago | Reply

@Afzaal Khan. Stop being callous.How many more innocent lives you ask for?

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