A 12-year-old girl working as domestic help was allegedly tortured to death by her employers in Sargodha.
The horrific incident happened in Village 84 South, a suburb of Sargodha, where Ayesha worked as a house helper. She was employed by a landlord named Jawad Bhatti, reported Geo News.
Bhatti and his wife reportedly struck the child with iron rods and sticks. After the child died, the suspects telephoned Ayesha’s family members and informed them that their daughter had an accident because of which she is severely injured.
When the family reached the place, they found out that the girl had been tortured and killed, as per the local police.
Bhatti and his wife ran away to escape arrest.
Providing details about the suspect, the police said that Bhatti is a contractor of the toll plaza.
The police said that a murder case has been registered against the suspect and his wife at the Laksian Police Station on the complaint of the girl’s father. A search is also underway to arrest the suspects.
The child’s body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has taken notice and immediately sought a report from the Inspector-General of police.
On February 26, another child worker named Ayesha was killed, reportedly by her employers, in Faisalabad while the parents were being forced to reconcile with the alleged murderers.
Important details are coming to light in the death of 11-year-old Ayesha allegedly at the hands of house owners in Faisalabad.
Ayesha, an 11-year-old domestic worker who was killed by violence in Faisalabad, got hired four months ago for a salary of 5,000 per month in a house belonging to a female lecturer in Naimat Colony.
Ayesha was beaten up on the allegations of theft to such an extent that she succumbed to her injuries and died.
Her parents have said that when they reached the Civil Hospital, they saw that their daughter was badly injured. They also revealed that they are being pressured by the influential suspects to reconcile, but they want them to be punished severely. Three of them are in police custody.
The police has informed Geo News that the girl was hired three to four months ago, while the child was beaten up a week ago. Further investigation is going on.
Previously, a horrific incident of violence against a young housemaid came to light in Faisalabad over the weekend. A 10-year-old maid died at the hands of her employers, reported Aaj TV.
The incident took place in Faisalabad’s Naimat Colony area, where a 10-year-old domestic worker died due to violence, after which the employers were detained and an investigation started. Three people, including two women, have been named in the case and all the suspects have been arrested.
Ayesha, 10, had been serving as house help in the house of Fazl-ur-Rehman, Suneela Tufail, and Raheela Tufail. The mother of the girl has said that she was not allowed to meet the child for three months. She was only informed about the death of the child.
According to the police, the female owner reached the civil hospital last night with the body of the girl. There were marks of violence on the girl’s body. The owner claimed that these were the marks of allergy on the girl’s body but the parents of the girl registered the case of death by violence in the police station. The police spokesperson said that more facts will come out after the autopsy.
An unfortunate incident took place in Karachi when a fast-moving car ran over a sleeping family killing three siblings and injuring two other family members.
The family was sleeping on a footpath near Nagan Chowrangi in the small hours of Wednesday morning when the car ran over them. However, the car driver managed to escape in injured condition, leaving behind his vehicle which was impounded by the police.
The police said that two brothers and their sister were killed in the accident, reports Dawn. Bali Gopi Chand, 22, and Ashok Gopi Chand, 9, died on the spot. Later, Shri Ram Gopi, 15, died during treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Sita Gopi, 14, and Lalay Gopi, 6 were injured and admitted for treatment.
“An FIR has been registered and police are working on the case,” said SSP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi, adding that police will arrest the driver and whoever else was in the car. A case of manslaughter has been registered.
Area SHO Qamar Kiani said that the police had conducted raids at three places to nab the suspect but to no avail.
He also said that the case was registered on the complaint of a relative of the victims, who informed the police that he lived in the slum area of Sohrab Goth and sold vegetables on a pushcart. He was asleep in his home when at around 3 am someone informed him about the death of his relatives in a car accident.
303 mobile phones worth 85 million rupees have been recovered from a passenger coming from Sharjah to Lahore.
According to details, a passenger named Muhammad Adil arrived from Sharjah to Lahore airport and Customs Deputy Commissioner Raja Bilal Naseem checked his luggage as it seemed ‘suspicious’.
During the search, 303 valuable mobile phones worth around 85 million rupees were allegedly recovered.
According to the customs officials, the passenger had hidden the mobile phones in his bag. Customs officials arrested the accused and registered an FIR against him.
A woman in the Ghazi Tehsil of Haripur allegedly strangled her minor nephew and threw his body into a well over a property dispute. She has been arrested by the police along with two accomplices, reports Dawn.
The boy, Abdul Moeed, 8, a student of grade III, went to school on Feb 21 but didn’t return home. The family searched for the missing boy, but could not find any clue to his whereabouts, informing the police.
As per the initial investigation conducted by the police, the suspect, Abida Shaheen, was identified by the police upon investigation of her mobile phone record. She disclosed that she strangled Moeed with the help of two accomplices, Waseem and Mohammad Akhtar, and then threw his body into a well in the village.
After her confession, the police recovered the body from the well and shifted it to Ghazi Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for autopsy.
A criminal case was registered against the woman and the accomplices under sections 201, 202, and 302/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The motive behind the boy’s murder was a property dispute between two brothers – the husband of the accused woman and the boy’s father – the police said.
LONDON: An international operation led by UK and US law enforcement has severely disrupted “the world’s most harmful cyber crime group”, the Russian-linked ransomware specialist LockBit, officials announced Tuesday.
LockBit and its affiliates have targeted governments, major companies, schools and hospitals, causing billions of dollars of damage and extracting tens of millions in ransoms from victims.
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol and agencies from nine other countries in Operation Cronos, said it had infiltrated LockBit’s network and taken control of its services.
“We have hacked the hackers, we have taken control of their infrastructure, seized their source code, and obtained keys that will help victims decrypt their systems,” NCA director general Graeme Biggar told reporters in London.
LockBit’s website — selling services that allow people to organise cyber attacks and hold data until a ransom is paid appears — was taken over on Monday evening.
A message appeared on the site stating that it was “now under control of law enforcement”.
“As of today LockBit is effectively redundant, LockBit has been locked out,” Biggar said.
The US Justice Department (DOJ) said the agencies had seized control of “numerous public-facing websites used by LockBit to connect to the organization’s infrastructure” and taken control of servers used by LockBit administrators.
The NCA added that it had obtained more than 1,000 decryption keys and will be contacting UK-based victims in the coming days and weeks to offer support and help them recover encrypted data.
Biggar said the network had been behind 25 percent of all cyber attacks in the past year.
Lockbit has targeted over 2,000 victims and received more than $120 million in ransom payments since it formed four years ago, according to the (DOJ).
Those targeted have included Britain’s Royal Mail, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing, and a Canadian children’s hospital.
In January 2023, US law enforcers shut down the Hive ransomware operation which had extorted some $100 million from more than 1,500 victims worldwide.
Following that action, Lockbit had been seen as the biggest current threat.
Hive and Lockbit are part of what cybersecurity experts call a “ransomware as a service” style, or RaaS — a business that leases its software and methods to others to use in extorting money.
A UC Chairman was killed as a result of firing between two groups over the issue of children in Bhitaiabad, Karachi.
The incident followed a fight among children in Bhataiabad Street No. 19, during which people from two groups fired at each other, as a result of which one person was killed and six people were injured, reports Geo News.
According to the police, the deceased person was identified as Sabir Magsi, chairman of UC-9 from Pakistan Peoples Party.
As soon as the incident was reported, a heavy contingent of police and rescue personnel reached the spot and shifted the injured to the hospital.
Counselor Shaukat Nazir told the media that the victim was a businessman and had left behind a widow and two children. “The victim was with me sometime before the incident and was killed by a bullet in the neck,” he said.
Shaukat Nazir further elaborated that the incident took place during a children’s fight. He asserted that the administration will take legal action after the burial.
The child victim of abuse at the hands of her employers, Rizwana has been admitted to Lahore General Hospital again.
According to the General Hospital administration, Rizwana, a minor and a victim of domestic violence, was discharged after recovering a few months ago.
Three weeks ago, however, Rizwana was again brought to the hospital due to pain in her arm. The doctors admitted her after examination.
According to hospital administration, a surgery will be performed on the girls’ arm.
Last year, in July, it was revealed that Rizwana, a young girl working at the house of a civil judge in Islamabad, was subjected to assault by her employers. The torture continued and when her condition worsened, the civil judge’s wife handed her over to her mother.
Rizwana had torture marks all over her body. A wound on her head had rotted due to lack of treatment, becoming infected by worms.
The killer of seven-year-old Abaan Mazhar has been arrested in the Federal B area of Karachi and in a shocking turn of events, he is the cousin of the victim.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Central Zeeshan Siddiqui, the arrested suspect Sufyan is between 14 and 15 years old and he is the cousin of the deceased Abaan and lived with him.
The police informed Geo News that the suspect said that Abaan used to complain to his father about him, leading to the older boy getting scolded many times.
The accused killer said in his statement, “I made a mistake”.
On the day of the incident, he took Abaan to the park from a back street and killed him inside the bushes at Dhobi Ghat.
Sufyan then washed the knife and kept it in the kitchen.
The police are still investigating the matter.
In an exclusive footage obtained by Geo News, it can be seen that the cousin was taking Abaan along with him while the little boy was strolling totally at ease holding his hand.
Regarding this, SSP Central Zeeshan Siddiqui said that two teams were working on this high-profile case. The accused was put on the suspect list on the first day, but being a family member, it was difficult to arrest him immediately.
Previously, the body of a seven-year-old boy, Abaan Mazhar, was found in bushes in the Federal B Area in Karachi on Wednesday afternoon.
The boy, whose throat had been slit with a sharp instrument, was found within the limits of the Yousuf Plaza police station near the Cardio Hospital Federal B Area Block 16. Station House Officer (SHO) Shahid Rao told The News that around 3:30 pm, a call was received by Madadgar-15 about an injured boy found in bushes.
A police team rushed to the location in Federal B Area Block-16 and shifted Abaan Mazhar to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. SHO Rao said the boy was alive when he was found and when people heard him screaming, they immediately contacted the Madadgar-15 hotline.
Witnesses saw the child lying injured, trying to speak but was unable to do so. They added that they had not seen any suspect near the boy when they found him.
Abhan was a resident of Federal B Area Block 16. He was a student of second grade and the second of three brothers. According to his family, he had left home two hours ago. They maintained that the family had no enmity with anyone.
SHO Rao said they had talked to Mazhar, the aggrieved father, who said his son studied in a private school in the area and as he worked in a private firm, he had hired a private person to pick up and drop his son from school.
The father also said that as per the daily routine, Abaan had returned from school at 2 pm but after a few minutes, someone knocked on the door of his residence and the boy again left the house. It was at around 3:30 pm, the family received the information about the boy’s death. The father told the police that he had no enmity with anyone and he did not know who had killed his son.
The post-mortem report revealed that the throat of the minor boy was slit with a sharp weapon, while no evidence of abuse was found, reports ARY News.
Samanabad DSP Asghar Mehdi told the media that the child died on his way to the hospital. He added that a woman living in a nearby flat first saw the child and shouted for help.
The police has been making efforts to obtain CCTV footage. A case has been registered and investigations are underway.
The district and sessions court Islamabad has on Friday indicted Somia Asim, wife of Civil Judge Asim Hafeez, in the Rizwana torture case.
The case was heard by civil judge Umar Shabbir. Rizwana’s mother and the suspect Somia Asim appeared in the court with their respective lawyers.
During the hearing, the court read out the indictment while Somia Asim denied the crime.
The court has formally started the trial against Somia and adjourned the hearing of the case till March 20, calling the witnesses to record their statements at the next hearing.
Somia Asim is accused of torturing the young domestic maid Rizwana.
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Rizwana had been allegedly tortured and abused while working at a civil judge’s home in Islamabad, after she was accused of stealing jewellery. Rizwana’s family revealed that the girl was not paid a single penny by the family for the extensive workload she was doing and was instead subjected to violence.
