Karachi woman held for alleged torture, murder of child domestic worker


Police arrested a woman on Friday for allegedly torturing an underage domestic worker to death at her residence in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area

According to Express News, the body of the 13-year old boy was recovered from the house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal 13-D area of the metropolis on Thursday

The employer, who is the owner of the house, had claimed that the minor worker got critically injured and succumbed to his injuries after he fell from an auto-rickshaw

The father of the minor boy told police that his three children worked at the woman's house

He accused the woman of torturing his children and killing his son

 The father added that his other two children also had torture marks on their bodies

Also read: Minor home worker killed, brother injured The brothers of the deceased have also recorded their statement with the police

Police arrested that woman after registering a case of torture and murder on the complaint of the victims’ father

Additional IG Karachi Javed Alam Odhu has also suspended DSP Abu Talha and the station house officer (SHO) of the area for their negligence in the case

SSP East Zubair Shaikh said that the officers were suspended as they showed incompetence and did not register a first information report (FIR) of the murder or conduct a post-mortem examination of the body



Date:11-Feb-2023 Reference:View Original Link