Five-year-old girl raped, murdered by suspected repeat offender in Shangla: police

A five-year-old girl in the town of Besham Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Shangla district was allegedly raped and strangled by a suspected repeat offender, police told DawnNews on Wednesday.

District Police Officer (DPO) Besham Rahatullah Khan said that the girl had gone missing from her house in the morning but her body was found wrapped in three sacks around 4pm near the residence of the 55-year-old suspect.

The young girl's body was taken to the Tehsil Headquarter Hospital Besham but due to unavailability of a female doctor, the case was transferred to District Headquarters Hospital Alpuri for autopsy and a post-mortem examination.

The DPO said that doctors, after the autopsy, held the view that the girl had been raped.

Police filed a First Information Report (FIR) following the autopsy, and the suspect, Jumaraz, was nominated in the FIR and arrested.

Station House Officer (SHO) Habib Syed claimed the suspect had been involved in such cases in the past.

The SHO said the suspect's entire family would be taken in for interrogation because the victim's sandals were recovered from the roof of the suspect's house.

The DPO said a special investigation team headed by Deputy Superintendent Police Besham Bashir Khan had been constituted to investigate the case and ascertain the culprits responsible immediately, for which efforts are underway.

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Imran Ahmed

Jun 22, 2017 12:12am

Poor child.

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Farjad Zaidi

Jun 22, 2017 12:54am

"Station House Officer (SHO) Habib Syed claimed the suspect had been involved in such cases in the past. " are you serious? How can this animal be roaming around free in the society?

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Rehna Fayaz

Jun 22, 2017 12:58am

RIP LITTLE one

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mians shoaib

Jun 22, 2017 01:00am

Where has humanity gone.?

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Afridi

Jun 22, 2017 01:12am

If he was a repeated offender then why was he not behind bars?

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Adil Jadoon

Jun 22, 2017 01:13am

The strictest punishment possible for this man and his accomplices. Why was he free if he had been involved in such things before! This was a preventable death and the blame lies with those who did not intervene the last time this happened.

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Naeem

Jun 22, 2017 01:18am

May curse be on you evil man

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MSAlvi

Jun 22, 2017 01:36am

It is a horrible crime. The criminal should be given exemplary punishment.

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Jun 22, 2017 01:51am

Instead of having their faces covered or hidden, these abhorrent culprits' faces should be shown clearly to the public, their pictures plastered on the front pages of every newspaper and social media outlet. They are the perpetrators, the scum of the earth and everyone should be aware of these criminals because soon enough.......they will be out and about repeating their sins unless stopped forcefully by spreading awareness. Only their victims should be covered and protected.

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Humayun

Jun 22, 2017 01:57am

The person behind must be given severe punishment

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Umair

Jun 22, 2017 01:57am

inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioun. Prayers for the victim and family. Unfortunately this crime has become very common, representing the sad state of the society. Need to educate parents to protect and teach the kids of danger from very young age.

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SYED HASSAN HASEEB

Jun 22, 2017 02:25am

poor child and useless police

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Awaz...

Jun 22, 2017 02:46am

Devilish act...Punish him!!!

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Abrar Hakim

Jun 22, 2017 02:58am

Horrific.. drastic measures required to uproot such mentality from society.

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Fazal Karim

Jun 22, 2017 03:05am

We hear such cruelty news every second day in Islamic of Pakistan . Neither fear of society nor law deter such criminals. For the pleasure of few moments they take innocent lives knowing fully well that they will be caught and punished. This type of crime needs to be examined by sexualogists, psychologists and neurologist . It is state of mind and body that pushes a man to commit such acts and crime. Some way has to be found to this problem.

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Junaid

Jun 22, 2017 03:10am

Had the authorities arrested him before, this girl would have been alive now.

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Yawar

Jun 22, 2017 03:32am

My heart bled as I read this report. Especially when I read "Station House Officer (SHO) Habib Syed claimed the suspect had been involved in such cases in the past." If that is the case then the animal should have been locked up and this ghastly crime would have been prevented. I beg the authorities to not show any mercy from this point forward towards him or anyone else of his type.

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Syed Husain

Jun 22, 2017 03:43am

Absolutly no mercy for this killer!

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Raza

Jun 22, 2017 04:12am

How come he was roaming free if he was a repeat offender ?

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JAVED RAHMAN

Jun 22, 2017 04:32am

Are these people savage? Exemplary punishment should be awarded to them

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ABDULRAHMAN

Jun 22, 2017 04:51am

mentality? this is a kind of social cancer. yes...but i will not stretch the issue. I will go for the solution. 1. always keep your children aware from such incidents (even if they are children). 2. Not to be lured by chocolates or such things that will attract from a stranger. 3. Police should not be limited to current culprit/criminal. 4. social media awareness should be more stronger. people should use Facebook, twitter etc to aware parents. 5. hardest punishment must be awarded to such kind of criminals and their family should be boycotted by the society. 6. Literacy should increase. 7. sex knowledge should be given to all types of aged people.

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Maverik

Jun 22, 2017 06:04am

Despicable. Exemplary punishment should be awarded to the beast.

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Abhishek

Jun 22, 2017 06:13am

People who are maligning India for the rapes , now should look into their backyard first. It happens every where.

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Imtiaz Janda

Jun 22, 2017 06:24am

Its a pity.

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Mbhatty

Jun 22, 2017 06:28am

For this kind of crime. Nothing but harsh sentence for absuing children. Our MNA,S instead of making speeches outside Supreme Court should legislat laws for the country.

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King Khan

Jun 22, 2017 06:38am

A repeat offender??? how he managed to escape the first time? the gov needs to mull over using harshest punishment in such cases so that others can take lesson from it.

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Ayub

Jun 22, 2017 07:00am

A gruesome act; warrants for exemplary punishment.

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KHURRAM

Jun 22, 2017 09:27am

If he had done such heinous crimes before, why was he at large, allowed to live among potential victims?

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Syed Harir Shah

Jun 22, 2017 11:15am

My heart is bleeding with the horrendous crime of child rape and murder in Besham-Shangla district. In another two cases at Nowshera and Chachro rape cases in the Holly month of Ramazan is beyond the imagination of humanity. All the three cases must be referred to speedy trial courts under the terrorist act and publicly punished them to avoid such occurrence in future. We also wish to appeal to the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court and Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan to take Sue moto action for exemplary action.

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Abida Ahmad

Jun 22, 2017 01:51pm

Evil people in my society, never let us a safe place to live

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Rizwan khalid arian

Jun 23, 2017 03:58pm

Astaghfirullah. In human act.

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