KARACHI, June 23: A man accused of killing a three-year-old girl after molesting her was attacked and wounded by the victim’s uncle outside the City Courts on Friday morning.
The body of the girl was recovered from the Orangi Nullah in Old Golimar after several hours of search by the police on Thursday.
The girl was allegedly molested before being strangled by a young man in Jehangirabad, Nazimabad No 1, on Thursday, police said.
On Friday morning the accused, Saleem alias Amir, was being taken back from the City Courts by the police after obtaining his remand from the judicial magistrate (central) when the girl’s uncle, Mohammad Shafiq, attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon.
“Shafiq targeted the genitals of the accused. But the policeman accompanying Saleem grabbed the attacker,” a duty officer at the City Courts police station said. After the attack, police shifted the injured Saleem to the Civil Hospital for treatment.
Following his arrest Shafiq told the police that he would again make an attempt to kill the accused as soon as he was set free by the police.
On Thursday, the three-year-old girl had set out from her house to play in the neighbourhood. She walked into the neighbours’ house where Saleem reportedly killed the girl after molesting her.
As he was dumping the body into the nallah after wrapping it into a cloth sheet, a policeman, Akram, heading to work saw Amir throwing something into the drain.
On his query, Saleem replied that he had thrown some garbage. However, his answer failed to satisfy the constable who took the suspect to the Rizvia police station.
After being roughed up at the police station, Amir disclosed the incident to the police.
Police employed sweepers of the area who after carrying out a search of the spot where the body was thrown in the nallah told the police that the body must have been flown downstream.
Finally the body was found and recovered from the nallah in the Old Golimar area. The victim’s father, Bashir, was a junk dealer.
SI WOUNDED: A sub-inspector was seriously wounded when unknown persons opened fire at him near the Natha Khan bridge on Friday.
Police said SI Nadeem Bangash was heading to the Al Falah police station on his motorcycle when unknown persons also on a motorcycle opened fire at him and fled.
The victim was rushed to the JPMC, where doctors said he had suffered two bullet wounds in the head.
He was later shifted to the Aga Khan Hospital by his friends and family, police said.
