RAHIM YAR KHAN: A group of influential people killed a 10-year-old girl over a minor dispute with her father.

Zaheer told reporters outside the emergency of the Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH) that his daughter Misbah had been missing for a day. He started search for his daughter and informed the Abe Hayyat police that few days back he had a conflict with some influential people over a manhole in his street.

He said he received threats and some people told him that Reham Ali, Saqib, Arbab and Tariq Ali took Misbah by a rickshaw at Cholistan Pull. He said he found her dead body in the evening from cotton fields of Chak 56-P.

Later, police shifted the dead body to the SZMCH for postmortem. Police registered a case against the four nominated people under section 363, 302 and 34 of PPC.

Published in Dawn, September 21st, 2022