LARKANA: Women police on Tuesday produced an eighth grader who was abducted within the jurisdiction of the Rehmatpur police station on June 13 and recovered about three weeks later from Bhains Colony, in Karachi.

During the identification parade in the court of Fourth Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Imtiaz Shahani, she recognised three suspects as her abductors.

The judge remanded the suspects in judicial custody till Aug 12 and allowed the girl, according to her wish, to go with her parents.

In her statement, she said that the three suspects had kept her in habeas corpus in Karachi after abducting her. Her father claimed that the suspects had extracted statements from his daughter under duress, threatening her that they would kill her parents.

A spokesman for the Larkana police had said in an Aug 5 statement that the girl was safely recovered from Bhains Colony within the jurisdiction of Shah Latif police station, Karachi, and two suspects were picked up. An FIR in this connection was already registered against the suspects under Section 364-A and 34 PPC at Rehmatpur police station, according to him.

A joint investigation team comprising SP (Headquarters) Haseeb Jawed Soomar Memon, DSP Ms Paras Bakhrani, Rehmatpur SHO Imadad Jagirani and Women police station SHO Ms Rehmat Abbasi was assigned the task of tracing out the girl, he said.

Police were also contemplating to incorporate the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2013, in the FIR in the light of medical examination report of the girl, he said..

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2024

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