LAHORE: Muslim Town police booked a man after the Child Protection & Welfare Bureau recovered two tortured children who worked as domestic servants from the suspect’s Faiz Road house during a raid on Tuesday.

The suspect, Kaleem Ghulam Nabi, fled his house along with his family members soon after the CPWB officials arrived there on a complaint from neighbourhood.

Preliminary police inquiries showed that the suspect, who lived in a rented house, and his family members had been subjecting their servants, Ansara (7) and Farhan (11), to torture.

The CP&WB officials came to know about the torture on a complaint made on their helpline and raided the house to find the children, both residents of Havaili Lakha in Okara district, with marks of violence on their bodies.

CP&WB officials took both the children into custody, shifted them to the bureau’s facility and provided them with necessary medical care. Burn scars were also spotted on their bodies.

A case was registered against Kaleem on the complaint of the bureau’s doctor, Mr Fiaz.

Police took Kaleem’s maternal uncle Shahzad Raza into custody.

Iqbal Town SP (Operations) Muhammad Iqbal told Dawn that police were not involved by CP&WB officials in the raid. He said the police later came to know about the raid through news channels.

He said police took the suspect’s uncle Shahzad into custody in a separate raid.

The SP said medico-legal examination of the two children had been completed to determine nature of injuries.

He said raids were being conducted to arrest prime suspects Ghulam Nabi.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2015

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