Daily Times

KARACHI: A minor boy whose body was found near the city’s National Cricket Stadium on Thursday was killed after being subjected to sexual abuse, initial investigation revealed.

Police on Friday registered a case against unidentified suspects for killing the minor boy after subjecting him to a rape in District East of Karachi.

According to details, a seven-year-old boy (identity withheld) was found dead in the bushes within the limits of New Town Police Station on Thursday. His body was later moved to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center for medico-legal formalities where doctors, according to initial findings, confirmed that the boy was subjected to rape before being killed.

Police officials said that unidentified suspect(s) first kidnapped the victim and later subjected him to rape before strangulating him to death. The body was later handed over to his family for burial process. New Town police, however, had registered a case against unidentified suspects on the complaint of victim’s father.

The deceased was a student of grade 3 and had gone missing since he left the home on Thursday to play games outdoors. However, his body was found late in the Thursday evening. New Town SHO Hikmatullah told Daily Times that the case had been registered while further investigation was underway.

Separately, an eight-year-old minor girl was allegedly subjected to rape near to her house in the outskirts of the city on Friday.

The incident took place in Labour Colony within the limits of Sukkan Police Station. Family of the victim told police that their daughter was sexually assaulted by an unidentified suspect after she left home for buying sweets from a nearby shop on Friday, adding that the suspect took the girl to an isolated place where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

SSP Malir Adeel Chandio said that the eight-year-old girl was raped on Friday at around 1 pm in her house in Labour Colony in the jurisdiction of PS Sukhan. The girl was taken to a hospital to obtain swabs from her body. The victim’s mother works at a factory in the area, while her father is currently in Punjab.

Police have detained the landlord of the house where the incident occurred to interrogate him.

Later, the girl was taken to the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre where a medico-legal examination was conducted. The hospital’s executive director, Dr Seemin Jamali, to Daily Times that the victim was subjected to rape apparently and that’s why she was shifted to the National Institute of Child Health for further treatment. A first-information report (FIR) of the incident was yet to be registered.

Published in Daily Times, February 3^rd 2018.