Three days after being brutally beaten by a seminary teacher a seven-year-old boy succumbed to his injures on Tuesday According to his parents, Abdul Wahab’s teacher had beaten him up with an iron rod breaking the minor’s shoulder bone. The boy was seeking treatment at Mayo treatment when he passed away, according to the police. The body was handed over to the deceased’s family after an autopsy. Police have registered a case. Police said that the facilitator in the case, identified as Ghafoor, had been taken into custody while a police team had left for Azad Kashmir for the arrest of the prime suspect. On January 22, a 10-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by a cleric in Karachi’s Bin Qasim area. The cleric, identified as Qari Nizamuddin, had beaten the child to death with a stick at his seminary in Edu Goth area. Following the incident, the police had taken the suspect into custody. Later, it was reported that the child’s parents had forgiven the cleric for the death of their son and did not register a case against him. Published in Daily Times, July 11th 2018.