Category: Crime

Police in Daska on Tuesday claimed that they have solved the case of the brutal murder of two young siblings whose bodies were found in a graveyard earlier this week,revealing that the children were killed after one of them witnessed their mother in a compromising situation.

Six-year-old Umm-e-Kalsoom and three-year-old Waris, residents of Bheko Chhor in the Saddar police station jurisdiction, were reported missing on Sunday. Their father, Kashif, worked at the dera of local landlord Numbardar Yaqoob.

The children’s bodies, which showed evidence of blunt-force trauma, were found in a nearby graveyard a day later. The shocking discovery sparked outrage and grief in the local community.

A special investigation team led by SP Investigation Usman Munir Saifi was formed by District Police Officer (DPO) Faisal Shahzad to look into the incident.

The main suspect, Malik Farooq, son of Numbardar Yaqoob, was taken into custody by police following a thorough investigation. Initial investigations suggest that  Farooq was having an affair with the children’s mother.

The older child allegedly witnessed them together in an inappropriate situation on the day of the incident. In order to hide the alleged extramarital affair with the children’s mother, authorities claim that Farooq and the woman collaborated to kill both children out of fear of being exposed.

Both siblings were killed by repeated blows to the head with bricks.

DPO Faisal Shahzad called the incident a “shocking and barbaric act,” promising that strict action would be taken to bring the killers to justice.

A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against an unidentified man for sexually abusing a minor girl as she played outside her home in Kasur on July 25.

The FIR on July 26 came hours after a video of the incident surfaced online. The video showed two minors, a girl and a boy, playing in the street when a man approached them and forcibly kissed the minor girl on her face.

The video also showed the girl resisting the man and later rushing to her house out of fear.

“When we came to the door after hearing her scream, we saw an unidentified person running away. He disappeared while we chased him,” the girl’s uncle stated in the FIR, adding that all this happened as the girl and her brother played outside their house on tricycles.

He further said that when he asked the girl about the incident, she told him that the unidentified man, while grabbing her, did “something to her face”.

“When we checked the CCTV footage, it was clearly seen that the unidentified man kissed the girl,” the complainant stated in the FIR.

It merits a mention that the incident is not the first of its kind as a significant spike in cases of child sexual abuse has been reported over the past several months.

Earlier, a local court in Bahawalpur handed down a sentence of 20 years rigorous imprisonment and a one million rupees fine to a madrassa teacher for the attempted rape of a 10-year-old girl student.

The victim also told her father that the teacher had been abusing her sexually for some time.

The father then registered an FIR against the teacher under section 377-B which pertains to offence of sexual abuse in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). The accused was then arrested.

The court ordered that in case of default on payment of the fine, the convict will have to under-go an additional imprisonment of six months.

TikToker Sumeera Rajput was found dead on Friday at her residence in Ghotki, leading the police to arrest her ex-husband after a video surfaced in which she held him responsible if anything were to happen to her.

Sumeera, who was married with children, regularly posted videos in Sindhi and had over 60,000 followers on TikTok.

According to a private TV channel, her body was found on July 25 at the house where she lived with her family. It was transported to the hospital in a rickshaw loaded with other items, where doctors confirmed she was dead.

Following the discovery, her family accused her ex-husband, Ali Raza, of murder. Following the complaint, police arrested two individuals, including Ali Raza.

Meanwhile, a video recorded by Sumeera Rajput just days before her death has gone viral on social media. In the video, recorded in Sindhi, she said: “If anything happens to me, Ali Raza should be held responsible.” However, she did not elaborate on the nature of the dispute with him.

Social media users are now demanding swift justice and urging the police and administration to hold the accused accountable.

A man allegedly tortured his wife to death and then hanged her body from a ceiling fan to stage it as a suicide in Dunga Bunga, Bahawalnagar.

According to the FIR, Waqas from Mauza Khemaywala married Gulnaz from Mauza Kamilpura eight years ago. The couple had two children.

Over time, their relationship reportedly deteriorated. On July 19, Gulnaz’s in-laws handed over her body to her parents, claiming she had taken her own life. However, visible signs of violence raised suspicions, prompting her parents to confront the in-laws on July 21.

The in-laws allegedly admitted that Waqas had tortured Gulnaz during an argument, which led to her death.

Police have registered a case under Sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against Waqas and his parents. An investigation is underway.

In another incident, a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted on the premises of the Bahawalnagar civil court. The victim, identified as “S,” was from Tibba Chishtian and had come to the court on July 18 to seek shelter at Darul Aman after an argument with her husband.

The FIR claims that she was lured into a chamber and raped by a man identified “A,” who was allegedly a lawyer’s reader.

She was taken to a house by the suspect after the assault, where she was held captive for three days. The woman managed to escape on July 22 and reported the incident to the police.

A man murdered his 45-year-old wife, a mother of five, in Frontier Colony, Orangi Town, Karachi.

The suspect, identified as Shoaib, critically injured his wife by first hitting her on the head with a cement block and then attacking her with a knife, according to Pirabad SHO Anees ur Rehman Sheikh.

The couple’s children, who were present at the time, witnessed the entire assault in shock and fear.

The injured woman was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead due to excessive blood loss and severe head injuries.

According to police, the suspect fled the scene immediately after the attack. Preliminary investigations suggest the murder was the result of ongoing domestic disputes and escalating tensions within the household.

A 19-year-old girl in Karachi’s Lyari succumbed to her injuries after being raped by her husband, police said on Wednesday.

Earlier this month, the newlywed girl, in critical condition, was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi after allegedly enduring “brutal sexual violence” from her husband, who was later arrested by the police.

Citing Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed, a media report claimed that the victim was in a coma while her physical examination findings were “consistent with sexual violence”, adding, “The rape victim, passed away at the trauma centre of the Civil Hospital Karachi at 10:45am Wednesday.”

The report quoted Baghdadi police Station House Officer (SHO) Majid Alvi as claiming that two days after the girl got married, the husband “subjected her to sodomy” and assaulted her with a metal pipe, leading to internal injuries. 

The victim’s brother registered a First Information Report (FIR) at the Baghdadi Police Station on July 5 under Sections 324 (attempt to commit murder) and 376-B (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

“On the third day of her marriage, my sister was subjected to brutal sexual violence allegedly by her husband. She remained admitted at a private hospital in the city and was later taken to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Trauma Centre of Civil Hospital Karachi in a critical condition the other day,” the FIR read.

The FIR further read that the complainant’s sister married the suspect on June 15. Her health condition deteriorated on June 30, compelling the family to bring her back home. She informed the parents that on June 17, her husband subjected her to an “unnatural sexual act”.

The complainant said that the suspect sexually assaulted her with a foreign object, adding subsequently, the husband also subjected her to sexual violence, leading to bleeding. 

As per the FIR, the suspect threatened his wife with “dire consequences” if she disclosed anything to anyone.

According to a statement issued by Aurat March on social media platforms on Wednesday, the victim’s name was Shanti, and she had been brutally raped and mutilated by her husband Ashok Kumar. 

The suspect’s family reportedly also tried to hide the rape and denied the victim medical care while also cutting her off from her parents.

“They watched her bleed and scream and chose silence,” the statement said, adding that the in-laws asked Shanti’s family for forgiveness and erased all evidence of rape.

The statement also accused a private hospital and one Dr Rauf Shaikh of lying and medical negligence, saying they “covered up rape and sent her home to die”.

“They all had chances to save her, [but] they all chose the rapist.”

Aurat March, along with Minority Rights Watch, has also announced taking to streets after Shanti’s family returns following her last rites.

Meanwhile, the suspect is yet to respond to the allegations.

A classmate of 14-year-old Farhan, who was allegedly beaten to death by his madrassah (seminary) teachers earlier this week in Swat’s Chaliyar village, has shared harrowing details of the last moments of the boy’s life.

The classmate said that Farhan was made to bend down while holding his ears from 2 pm onwards as a punishment. “Then, Qari Bakht Ameen began beating him with a stick. He was later joined by four more individuals in the violence.”

“When the boy became weak, madrassah administrator Farooq locked him in a room where he was beaten again. The torture was so severe that the stick broke. The child kept writhing in pain; his hands and feet had gone numb. After some time, when he regained consciousness, he was again forced to hold his ears. In the evening, in a trembling voice, he asked me for water. As soon as I gave him some, he took his last breath.”

Farhan’s classmate revealed the details of the tragedy in Pushto which were translated by journalist Harmeet Singh into Urdu, and the video was shared on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday.

What did Farhan’s uncle say

A leading English newspaper quoted Farhan’s uncle Saddar Ayaz as saying that when his nephew came home, he showed fear about going back to the madrassah and did not want to return.

“I took him to the seminary myself, handed him over to the teachers, and went back,” Ayaz said, adding, “Later that evening, one of the teachers called me and told me that my nephew had fallen in the toilet and died.”

According to the police, the 14-year-old student was shifted to the nearest hospital by students and teachers; however, doctors declared him dead upon arrival.

Meanwhile, authorities have sealed the madrassah and returned its other students to their parents, District Police Officer (DPO) Omar said on Wednesday.

DPO statements

Addressing a press conference in his office, flanked by Superintendent of Police (SP) (Investigation) Badshah Hazrat Khan, DPO Omar stated: “When we came to know of this incident, we also thought to check with the other students studying in the madrassah if there was any other case such as this or not. We sent our team to this madrassah and when statements were taken from the children, it was found out that some others had been subjected to violence as well.”

The DPO confirmed that police detained all madrassah staff upon receiving this information, with nine more having been held and a case registered on the police’s complaint under the Child Protection Act.

“Around 160 to 170 students were retrieved and we returned them safely to their families after contacting them and the madrassah was sealed,” he added.

Omar said investigations into any possible sexual assault were underway with samples taken, adding that the relevant section would be added to the First Information Report (FIR) on any confirmation.

The DPO claimed that there were four suspects nominated in the FIR and two were subsequently arrested, with teams established to locate and apprehend the others. “They will not be able to escape the law. We will arrest them as soon as possible,” he said of the absconding suspects.

Additionally, he said the items used to allegedly beat and bind the student were also recovered.

According to the KP Child Protection and Welfare Act of 2010 and its 2018 regulations, corporal punishment is considered a criminal offence and can lead to a penalty of up to six months in jail, a fine of Rs50,000, or both.