Police pick up suspects in minor girl’s gang rape case

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter Published October 26, 2022

KARACHI: Two suspects, who had allegedly gang-raped a 10-year-old homeless girl, were taken into custody from the Defence area on Tuesday evening.

Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon tweeted that the breakthrough was made with the help of CCTV footage.

The minor girl, whose family came to the metropolis from their hometown in Shikarpur in the aftermath of the floods, was kidnapped and gang-raped by two unknown persons who later abandoned her outside a Clifton shopping mall on Sunday. The Boat Basin police registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s mother. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had also took notice of the incident and directed police to bring the culprits to justice at the earliest.

Earlier, a senior police officer claimed that the investigation was under way and statements of all relevant people including witnesses were being recorded. An exercise to collect CCTV footage was also carried out, he said.

Meanwhile, Sindh Women Development Minister Syeda Shehla Raza and Sindh Commission on the Status of Women (SCSW) chairperson Nuzhat Shireen visited the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to inquire after the health of the victim.

She directed doctors to provide her all medical facilities. Ms Raza vowed to provide all possible legal assistance to the mother of the victim to bring the criminals to justice.

She said the victim girl’s father had already passed away and her mother moved to Karachi with her children after the floods.

She said that the police should introduce strict legal provisions in registering cases of incidents of abuse, and added that the courts should also give severe punishments to such criminals.

She said the whole society is paralysed due to such ‘savage beasts’ and parents should also not leave their children at the mercy of such people and take care of them.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2022

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 06:41pm

Because, this is not a single family displaced and shelterless even now devoid of social security in metropolis whose responsibility is to provide all flood-effectees , Unfortunate poor people deprived of all their livilihood counting on the state, have become very easy prey of unbridled cruel and savage animals in the form of humam and fearless. Admittedly, our security system deserves admiration especially the investigation officer used all available resources and probe tools to get at the

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 06:48pm

perpetrators and no doubt it is a big achievement for the to caught in no time, laudable. I beieve in commitment in any walk of life and particularly the Civil Servant need to do his or her work with dedication results will be there, same spirit should be used consistently and the investigation team must be rewarded. I am apprehensive to a greater extent especially in respect of prosecution role always disappointing and extremely inefficient, weak and i dont know knowingly or otherwise they most

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 06:54pm

of the time fail to carry out prosecution that could take to the actual culprits to the task and culminate in the disbursement of justice, newspapers, social media and all kinds of print media is awash with one common news that people involved in such a such crime is exonerate, acquitted, let off or punishment is commuted for wan of evidence. It is really brazenly and either we don't have appropriate training for prosecution or inefficient people working for it. If any crime goes against state

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 07:02pm

has to be taken by state itself irrespective of it pertains to an individual or other than state in nature. We are witnessing a number of such cases even of murder, abduction, rape, ransom and conviction theteof qushed off owing to poor prosecution or internal settlement. There are laws whereby a few cases could be sorted out by means of blood money( Qasas), nevertheless, if that is affecting the society as whole causing intimidation, individual or collective insecure environment got to handle

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 07:10pm

by the state as a party. Spirit of law needs to be prevailed and peace and order of the day is key and it is the responsibility of the state to provide its citizens irrespective of any discrimination, especially it should never become under any duress. As a matter of fact our laws of the land provide every social security, we have fundamental rights, principles of policies, minority rights, Islamic provisions and simultaneously have indifferent attitude, lack of compassion, and

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Majid Burfat

Oct 26, 2022 07:18pm

above all implementation of all these.Now take example of this untowards and cruel incident of a minor girl, if all segments of the society including citizens, law enforcement institutions, and efficient administration had performed their responsible role and it might not have happened and an innocent life would have made saved her honour. Government has ostensibly asserted to provide all lega assistance to the victim and would bring criminals to the justice. Please do justice but not red-tapism

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