- Arrested suspect was rickshaw driver and neighbour of sufferer.
- He was handed over to police by folks of neighbourhood.
- Sufferer’s physique was discovered on avenue close to her residence in Gulberg.
KARACHI: A rickshaw driver has confessed to raping and killing a three-year-old lady within the port metropolis’s Federal B Space Block 11, police advised Geo Information on Thursday.
The suspect named Naseer, as per the police, was a rickshaw driver and neighbour of the sufferer and had put her physique in a sack earlier than throwing it on the road. He was handed over to police by folks of the neighbourhood.
The toddler’s physique was discovered on a avenue close to her residence in Gulberg. It had a dupatta tied round her neck as a noose — indicating that she could have been strangled — on the morning of October 9 (Wednesday), stated police.
In accordance with the police, a picture extracted from a CCTV footage of the arrested suspect has additionally been obtained by which he’s seen carrying the sufferer’s physique in a sack.
Police officers additionally talked about that the rape of the toddler was confirmed within the autopsy report and that the suspect is being interrogated as a part of the case’s investigation.
After the sufferer’s physique was discovered a day earlier, it was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
In accordance with police, the little lady — recognized as Amna — was the youngest of six siblings, and her father is at present in Saudi Arabia to carry out Umrah.
Police stated the lady had adopted her siblings at round 7:15am once they left for varsity within the morning, and was discovered lifeless at 7:30am at a brief distance from her residence.
The sufferer’s mom had maintained that that they had no enmity with anybody.
In accordance with police, the preliminary autopsy report urged that the lady was sexually assaulted and strangled to loss of life. Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed, nonetheless, stated the reason for loss of life and opinion relating to sexual violence was reserved until the medical report.
The incident comes lower than two months after a minor lady was allegedly raped and murdered earlier than being thrown in a rubbish dump in Karachi’s Saddar space in August.
The 12-year-old sufferer was discovered stashed in a gunny bag from the rubbish dump close to Fortunate Star.
Dr Summaiya, whereas citing the sufferer’s post-mortem report, had confirmed that the lady was subjected to “sexual abuse”.