Medico-legal confirms rape of 5-year-old girl before murder in Karachi
Last updated on: 07 September,2020 11:22 pm
Medico-legal confirms rape of 5-year-old girl before murder in Karachi
KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Medico-legal Officer (MLO) of Jinnah Hospital has confirmed the rape of a 5-year-old girl Marwa, her tortured body was found from an empty plot in Isa Nagri area of Karachi.
According to details, Dr Zakia has confirmed that the girl was raped and hit on the head with a heavy object.
According to MLO, no signs of burns were found on the girl s body. The body was swollen after decay, while police has expanded their investigation and arrested 11 people. Investigative police have already arrested two people in the case. Help is also being sought from the footage of CCTV cameras in the area.
The girl had gone out to buy biscuits from a shop near her house at 7am on Friday. After buying biscuits from the shop, Marwa could not reach home. Marwa s body was found last night in a garbage dump in the ground some distance from her house. Marwa s father was a rickshaw driver.
Earlier In a shocking incident, the body of a five-year-old girl was found stuffed inside a bag in the port city’s Essa Nagri neighbourhood.
According to police the body was found abandoned in a trash heap on an empty plot in Pir Bukhari colony.
Local residents said the body was in an appalling condition as the girl might have been set ablaze. She has been identified as Marwa, who had gone missing from PIB Colony. An FIR of her missing was registered at the relevant police station on her father’s complaint.
Meanwhile, the police have arrested a man and his son during a raid on a house in PIB Colony on suspicion of their involvement in the gruesome incident. The man along with his two sons had moved to the house a few days back.
One of the two sons is at large and a search is underway to locate his whereabouts, the police said.
As per initial reports, they said, the girl had a head injury which apparently led to her death with her face burned to mangle her appearance. The police said they suspect that she might have also been subjected to sexual assault but await a final post-mortem report to ascertain it.