KARACHI: A local court on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody a suspect detained for sexually assaulting a minor boy.

The suspect was accused of sodomising a three-year-old boy in a locality of Natha Khan Goth on October 14.

On Tuesday, the investigating officer (IO) produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate East and sought his 14-day physical remand in police custody. However, the judge remanded the suspect in judicial custody for two weeks and directed to the IO to produce him on the next date along with an investigation report.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2020

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