ISLAMABAD, Feb 27: The body of the daughter of a senior police officer, who died mysteriously last November, is likely to be exhumed to confirm the claim of a self-confessed rapist-killer that he had murdered her.
“All the legal procedures will be followed,” said the Islamabad police chief Bani Amin when asked about that possibility at a press conference he held on Wednesday to formally announce the arrest of a suspect sex maniac in the case of a missing 11-year-old girl of the city’s Bhara Kahu suburbs who was found murdered on February 16.
Despite the mysterious circumstances that surrounded the death of the police officer’s daughter, and despite her death certificate mentioning “hanging marks” on her neck, the family had buried without a postmortem, treating it as a natural death.
Her death suddenly took a horrific context when a man, MBA from a city university and working as human resource manager in a steel mill, arrested for raping and killing the 11-year-old girl, dramatically confessed that he had done same to the police officer’s daughter.
A police officer involved in the investigations told Dawn that the only evidence available with police to prosecute a murder charge were the death certificate and the confessional statement of the suspect before a magistrate. But the police’s legal branch did not consider them enough for a conviction.
Postmortem of an exhumed body is an accepted legal process and could strengthen the prosecution’s case.
But the officer rated the chances of the autopsy of a body buried three months ago yielding helpful results “meagre”.
In the meantime, the police have visited the medical stores which sold the self-confessed rapist-killer controlled medicines without physicians’ prescription.
The salesman of a store located at I-9 Markaz told the police that the man was a regular customer for over a year.
Once a week he would come asking for sleeping pills, sedatives and pills for relaxation for personal use.
Police would use the salesman’s statement as evidence against the accused and the store itself for selling controlled drugs irresponsibly.
His criminal run came to an end when his university girlfriend spilled the beans while being questioned by the police about the 11-year-old who was supposedly taking tuition lessons from her on February 13 when the poor girl disappeared, only to be found dead a few days later.
At his press conference, IGP Bin Amin said that a case was registered by the Bhara Kahu police against the tutor under Section 364-A on the complaint of the father of the missing girl.
After the totally burnt body found in a dry gutter in Sector I-9/1 on February 16 was identified as hers, the charge of murder was added in the FIR registered at Bhara Kahu police station.
Police questioned more than 100 neighbours and other persons in Bhara Kahu and in Sector I-9/1, and also collected the call record of the tutor.
Backgrounds of the girl’s relatives in her native town Murree were checked for possible family feuds.
Investigators found out that the tutor was in contact with her boyfriend who lived in I-9/1 and had visited her house around 11:30pm on February 13.
Initially, the tutor denied everything but broke down under hard interrogation and disclosed that she and her boyfriend drugged the little girl and the boyfriend took her home, raped her and burnt her body after killing her.
Her boyfriend was arrested and confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering the poor girl.
The tutor also confessed to the crime in her statement to a magistrate under Section 164.
Under interrogation, the self-confessed killer gave the strange reason for his brutality. He said he told his girlfriend that he was suffering from Aids which could be treated if he had sex with some other girl.
Later he confessed to murdering the daughter of senior police officer who was a classmate of his girlfriend in the university.