SUKKUR: The Additional Sessions Judge-II of Sukkur, Javed Hussain Mirani, has acquitted a woman tutor, her elder sister and their three brothers in the July 30, 2024 case pertaining to alleged sexual assault of a five-year-old girl at their tuition centre.

The judge found the allegations, levelled by the minor girl’s father, false, declaring that neither the evidence was sufficient nor did the DNA test match any of the suspects. The witnesses’ testimonies also negated the crime having been committed.

All the suspects were arrested after the minor girl’s father lodged an FIR against them at the Rohri police station. However, lawyers and media personnel collected CCTV footages from the area which suggested that the father dropped his minor daughter at the tuition centre in the evening and picked her up about an hour later to return to their home. The footage showed no indication of stress or pain on her face or injury on her body until they left the locality.

The judgement, pronounced some 28 months since the registration of the case, declared the prosecution’s case ‘false’.

Suspect held

Police said they arrested another key suspect late on Saturday evening in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 12-year-old beggar girl, who was reportedly given intoxicating pills before being assaulted at a hotel on Shikarpur Road six days ago. According to the Sukkur SITE police, a team led by DSP Abdul Qadir Soomro arrested the suspect. Earlier, four other suspects had been arrested, including two women allegedly facilitating them in the commission of the crime.

Published in Dawn, November 9th, 2026