Child dies from father’s beating in Lahore

Police have registered a case against the girl's father and step-mother who beat her up for waking up at night


Our Correspondent October 27, 2015
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LAHORE: A six-year-old girl died allegedly in Iqbal Town on Tuesday after being beaten up by her father and step-mother.

Police have registered a case against Khurram and his second wife Ghania, residents of Kashmir Block, on the complaint of the former’s first wife, Khadija.

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“Khadija told us that her daughter got up late at night to go to the washroom. This infuriated his father who beat her so badly that she fainted.

She was taken to nearby hospital where doctors pronounced her dead,” police said.

Earlier, the 12-year-old girl found dead outside Mayo Hospital in Lahore was killed and dumped by her father and brother for ‘not making gol roti’, police said on Wednesday.

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The father and brother of the child had beaten her to death for not making the chapattis properly and to hide their crime they had dumped her body and filed case of kidnapping and murder, police said quoting confession of the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2015.

COMMENTS (4)

Maham | 8 years ago | Reply Note only all are girls who were killed. And then Pakistan according to our men is a country that "respects its women". MashAllah. :/
Ali | 8 years ago | Reply Ashamed of being a human-- we as a society are agitated and depressed. Sane people cannot commit such acts.
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