MARDAN: Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested a teenage boy for assaulting an eight-year-old deaf girl in Jungara Bashkhaly locality here.

Choora police station officials said they had arrested the 14-year-old accused, the victim’s neighbour, soon after the girl’s father registered FIR against him on Monday.

The officials quoted the girl’s mother as telling them that her daughter complained on March 6 through gestures that she felt pain and was bleeding. After two to three days, the mother said she took her to a doctor when she again complained about pain, and the doctor said the girl had been raped.

Meanwhile, the girl’s father accused police of using delay tactics in registering FIR. He said the police registered FIR of the case on Monday when some mediapersons approached him.

The police said they had obtained two-day physical remand of the accused from the judicial magistrate. Also on Tuesday, the post-mortem report of seven-year-old boy released by Mardan Medical Complex Hospital confirmed the victim was raped before being murdered.

The boy was missing from home, and his father had registered a complaint with Sheikh Maltoon police on Saturday. But the next day, his body was found wrapped in a plastic bag near his house which sparked protests.

Published in Dawn, March 14th, 2018