KARACHI: An 11-year-old child servant allegedly tortured and confined in a bungalow in Defence Housing Authority was recovered during a raid by police on Thursday, officials said.

They also arrested the house owner, Mohammad Rizwan Shaikh, who, along with his wife, used to allegedly torture the boy, Ali Asghar, at their house, said Karachi South SSP Saqib Ismail Memon.

There were visible torture marks on different parts of the child’s body, the police officer said, adding that he was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medical examination and treatment.

The senior officer said the boy’s father, Mohammad Ishaq, a resident of Badin district, had informed the police that his son had been working at a DHA house whose owner was not allowing him to visit his family in his native town.

In his complaint, Mr Ishaq apprehended that his son was being treated badly there. On his identification, the police recovered the child from the house and arrested the owner.

The police registered an FIR (112/2017) under Sections 342 (wrongful confinement) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code and 337-A (i) and 337-F (i) (Shajjah: whoever causes, on the head or face of any person, any hurt that does not amount to itlafi-udw or itlaf-i-salahiyyat-i-udw is said to cause Shajjah) of Qisas and Diyat Ordinance against the held suspect, Rizwan, and his wife.

Man kills step-brother in Jauhar

A man was shot dead and his father was wounded in what police described as a family dispute over property in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Thursday evening, officials said.

The officials suspected that Faizan Bangash fired at his 21-year-old step-brother, Dildar, and his father, Dilawar, in their home in Pehalwan Goth. The suspect fled following the incident, the police said. The wounded father and son were shifted to a nearby private hospital where doctors pronounced Dildar dead, while his father was shifted to a private hospital for further treatment.

Karachi East SSP Faisal Abdullah said that as per initial report of the investigation the incident was the outcome of a property dispute.

Railway office looted

A Pakistan Railways booking office was looted in Korangi in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.

They added that robbers broke open the locked booking office situated in Nasir Colony of Korangi No. 1 and took away more than Rs80,000 from its cash counter, said Korangi Industrial Area SHO Mohammed Nawaz Gondal.

He said the police were informed about the incident by the Railways officials later in the morning. They registered an FIR against unidentified robbers and were investigating the case.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2017