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India-Pakistan
Minor girl raped, murdered after torture in Karachi's Bhittaiabad
2018-08-02
[DAWN] A seven-year-old girl was raped and brutally murdered allegedly by some of her close relatives in Bhittaiabad area of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighbourhood, police said on Wednesday.

SSP (Investigation) East Zone, Abid Hussain Qaimkhani, told Dawn the police have locked away
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three suspects who happen to be relatives of the girl after registering a case against them.

During an initial probe, police gathered significant clues regarding the torture inflicted on the girl before her death, while DNA samples of the suspects and the victim were being taken to ascertain the identity of the person who subjected her to rape, the officer said.

Read: 'Why is DNA evidence not given weight in Pak courts?'

The minor girl's body was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for post-mortem examination on Tuesday night.

Medico-legal officer Dr Zakia Khurshid confirmed to media representatives on Tuesday night that the girl was raped and there were torture marks on her body. There were also burn wounds caused by a cigarette.

The victim's death was caused by strangulation, the doctor revealed.

SSP Qaimkhani said the girl had been living at the home of her uncle in Bhittaiabad after her father's death around one-and-a-half years earlier.

The senior officer who visited the scene of the crime on Wednesday told Dawn that as per the police probe, there is only one man in the house who consumes cigarette and he happens to be the brother of the victim's brother-in-law.

The police also recovered a pipe from the house which was allegedly used to beat the victim.

The SSP revealed that one of the detained suspects had "confessed" to beating the minor girl but police were making efforts with the help of modern technology to ascertain the identity of the suspect who sexually assaulted her.
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