KARACHI, June 27: Two minor sisters, sexually and physically abused by a man, recorded their statements, under section 144 of CrPC, before the Judicial Magistrate, Malir, Abdul Quddoos Memon, on Thursday.

One of the girls, aged five, was brought from Civil Hospital in an Edhi ambulance and produced in the court on a stretcher as she was unable to walk. She and her nine-year-old sister identified the accused, Raza Khan.

The older sister told the court that the accused raped her younger sister five times. He often tied them with rope, pluck their hair and burnt their bodies with cigarettes. The accused forcibly took her away from her father. Later, he kidnapped her younger sister, she said in her statement.

The court sent the accused to jail.

According to the prosecution, a resident of Baldia Town lodged a report at the area police station that his five-year-old maternal granddaughter disappeared a month back. During the search he learnt that Raza Khan had kept her in illegal confinement in Mohammed Khan goth, in Gulshan Town area, in the police limits of Sachal. The grandfather informed the area councillor about the disappearance of his granddaughter who reported the matter to police, who raided Raza Khan’s house on June 16 and recovered the two sisters.

The accused abused both the girls sexually and physically and used to burn them with cigarettes and cut their skin with knife. Police had sent both the girls for medical tests to the medicolegal section of Civil Hospital. The tests confirmed that the girls were subjected to severe torture. The younger girl was admitted to Civil Hospital. — PPI