KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali taking serious notice of the rape with a 10-year-old flood-affected girl has directed the police to arrest the culprits and took the remaining family members of the girl in protective care.
“This is totally unacceptable and cannot be forgiven, therefore, I want the culprits behind the bars immediately,” he told the Additional IG Karachi on the telephone on Monday. The Additional IG Karachi Javed Odho told the chief minister that the 10-year-girl and her six younger brothers and sisters were living with her mother in the vicinity of the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi. Originally, the family belongs to Shikarpur district.
On Sunday night, two boys at around 11 am forcibly took her in their car and raped her, and then left her in the same vicinity at around 2.30 pm. When her mother noticed her daughter’s plight, she rushed to JPMC where she was still under treatment. The matter came to the knowledge of the SSP South who registered an FIR at Boat Basin Police station and started an investigation into the matter, the CM was told.
The Adl IG Karachi has constituted a police party to arrest the culprits and bring them to book. The chief minister directed Adl IG Karachi to check the area’s CCTV footage, identify their vehicle, and persons, and arrest them. He also directed him to identify the culprits through DNA. Meanwhile, the chief Minister directed Minister Women Development Department Shahla Raza to take the entire family into protective care. The family has been kept at a women police station.
