KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded on Thursday a man in police custody and sent two suspects, his wife and daughter, to prison in a case pertaining to kidnapping and rape of an underage girl.

Another suspect is in custody while five are absconding in the case.

Police said that the members of the detained family had allegedly helped the main suspects abduct the 13-year-old girl in Korangi Industrial Area on Jan 1.

The other detained man and his five absconding accomplices kept the victim at different places for eight days and allegedly subjected her to criminal assault during captivity.

The investigating officer produced the suspects in court and sought the custody for interrogation and to arrest the absconders.

A judicial magistrate (east) handed the main suspect over to the police on physical remand till Jan 14 and sent the arrested family to prison on judicial remand.

The IO also informed the court that the suspects injected sedative drugs into the victim and subjected her to torture. The IO maintained that the detained family was living in the neighbourhood of the victim and abetted in the commissioning of the offence of kidnapping.

A case was registered under Sections 365-B (kidnapping or inducing woman to compel for marriage, etc), 376-II (punishment for gang rape) and 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s mother at the KIA police station.

Chinese nationals remanded

Another judicial magistrate remanded on Thursday two Chinese nationals in the Federal Investigation Agency custody in a case pertaining to stealing data from an automated teller machine (ATM).

The FIA booked Zhang Qiaocheng and Zhong Showen for allegedly stealing data from an ATM facility of a private bank with skimming devices on main Abdullah Haroon Road near Zainab Market on Jan 10.

The IO produced the suspects before a judicial magistrate (south) and sought their custody for two weeks for questioning. The magistrate handed them over to the FIA on three-day physical remand and directed the IO to produce them again at next hearing along with a progress report.

It may be recalled that two other Chinese nationals Zhong Xianming and Zhong Xianquan were also arrested in March 2017 over identical allegations near Teen Talwar in Clifton awhile another Chinese Xie Yie was detained in July 2016 in a similar case.

Warrant for ex-SHO

A court issued on Thursday a warrant for arrest of a former SHO of the Mominabad police station in the murder case of a 14-year-old boy.

The dismissed SHO, Mumtaz Marwat, and policemen Abdul Razzaq and Majid Jadoon have been booked for allegedly shooting to death Rehan at the behest of Tahir, alias Tipu, said to be a police informer, and his friend Akram Farooqui on Nov 13 in Mominabad.

Four suspects were arrested after the incident while the former SHO was shown absconder in the charge sheet.

A judicial magistrate (west) issued a non-bailable warrant for the former SHO and directed the IO to arrest him and produce in court till Jan 15.

Initially, police claimed that the boy was killed during an exchange of fire between police and drug peddlers.

However, the SHO and both policemen were dismissed from service in November after an inquiry committee headed by a SSP reported that the SHO and his subordinates abused their powers and opened fire at the behest of private suspects as one of them was involved in a brawl with area people over his alleged relations with a girl of the same area.

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2018