LAHORE: The police claim to have traced the blind murder of a young girl who was allegedly killed some two months back and her body was thrown on Lahore-Sialkot Motorway in Gujjarpura police precincts.

The body of 24-year-old girl (J), a resident of Muzaffargarh, was packed in a sack and a motorist had alerted the police when he found it on the motorway.

The Gujarpura police had lodged a case against unidentified killer(s).

The Civil Lines division investigation SP said the case has been traced some two months after the incident.

He said it seems the girl was murdered by her father and brother and police teams have been dispatched for their arrest.

The motive behind the killing of the girl was yet to be ascertained, he said.

Published in Dawn, October 7th, 2020

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