VEHARI, Nov 19: As the world marks a day to highlight child abuse on Thursday, Muhammad Ahmad, a labourer, will be arranging money to bury his three-year–old son whose body was found in a waste disposal four days after he was kidnapped, an incident that police had refused to register despite being reported immediately after it occurred.

Reports said the victim, Juma, was kidnapped by unidentified outlaws from Muslim Town four days back. The child’s parents reported the matter to Danywal police, but they did not register any FIR of the incident. On Wednesday, the body of Juma was recovered from the 32-Qarter area disposal.

Police, at last, registered a case.

Victim’s father Muhammad Ahmad, a labourer, told Dawn that following the child went missing four days back, he went to the Danywal police station and reported the matter but no body heeded his pleadings. He said even after that he repeatedly requested the police to register a case and help him in tracing the child, but they remain unmoved.

He said now with the child’s death, his quest had ended, but arrest of culprits and an exemplary punishment to them could help save many other children and their families.

He said he was a poor worker and had no enmity with anybody.

He appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to provide justice to him by ordering immediate arrest of the culprits and action against the police concerned for not registering the case four days back. He said had the police acted promptly, the life of his innocent child could have been saved.

Danywal SHO Mohammad Afzal, when asked why the case was not registered despite passage of four days, resulting in the murder of an innocent child, claimed the victim’s family did not contact the police.

He said the post-mortem report which would be issued on Thursday (today) could throw light on the circumstances of child’s death.