KARACHI: A seven-year-old girl belonging to Karachi’s Bhittaiabad area was murdered after being raped and tortured for a month, a medico-legal officer confirmed on Tuesday.
According to ARY News correspondent, body of a seven-year-old girl was found from Bhittaiabad area earlier in the day and was moved to Jinnah Hospital for medico-legal examination.
The medico-legal officer said that the minor girl was brutally tortured and raped for about a month as her body has severe injury marks including those of cigarette burns.The cause of death is listed, however, as asphyxiation due to strangulation.
The incident is the latest in several child abuse cases in the country. Earlier this year, Pakistan was shaken by rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab Ansari in Punjab province’s Kasur.
Kidnapped on January 4 and found from a garbage heap on January 9, Zainab’s autopsy report suggested that the minor was sexually assaulted before being strangulated to death.
On January 21, the Supreme Court gave three days’ time to a joint investigation team formed to probe the rape and murder of Zainab to track down the culprit.
The JIT arrested the culprit named Imran Arshad on January 23 after the DNA proved that he was behind the rape and murder of Zainab and at least eight other girls from Kasur.
He was sentenced to death over the heinous crime.
