Cousin held for girls rape, murder
KARACHI: A 22-year-old man was on Monday booked and arrested for kidnapping and raping his four-year-old cousin who was found dead on Sunday in a football ground being used as a garbage dump in the Upper Gizri area a day after she went missing, police said.
They added that the involvement of the suspect who apparently spearheaded a violent protest in the area after the girl was found dead in the crime was established by an early investigation.
The suspect is a first cousin of the victim, Clifton SP Tariq Dharejo told Dawn.
He came from Hub a few days ago to oversee the construction of his house in the area. He sexually assaulted the girl inside that under-construction house and strangled her for fear that she might disclose the crime and his involvement in it to her family.
Later, he disposed of the body in the football ground being used as a garbage dump, and then joined the family to look for her when it emerged that she had gone missing, he added.
The police investigators became suspicious when they learnt about the manner in which the victims body was found. It led us to the two men the suspect and a neighbour of the victim girl who had actually spotted the body and told the family and the neighbours that the girl was lying dead in the garbage dump, added SP Dharejo.
The neighbour told the investigators that he had been asked by the girls cousin to look for the body in the garbage dump and that it was he who first spotted the victims body.
Then we quizzed the suspect and seized the clothes he had changed after allegedly committing the crime. Since some evidence of the crime was found on his clothes, he confessed to his involvement in it after a brief interrogation, he said.
The Clifton police later inserted his name in the already registered FIR (184/2010) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 364 (kidnapping) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim girls grandfather, Rehmat Ali.
They also incorporated Section 376 (punishment for rape) of the PPC in the FIR against the suspect on the basis of initial medical findings.
Medical examination of both the victim and the suspect establishes the crime. Hence we have incorporated Section 376 of the PPC against the suspect in the FIR, said the Clifton SP.
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