F.P. Report
KARACHI: Police in Karachi on Tuesday arrested an alleged rapist, who is accused of raping five minors aged age 7 to 10 year old.
Addressing news conference DIG East Zulfiqar Ali Laraik said that the suspected was wanted in rape cases from Malir area of the city.
“Amjad Ali has been arrested on charge of committing rape of minors,” DIG east told Reporters here during news conference at his office. The suspect was also presented before the media.
“We constituted a police team on the report of rapes in Malir District, the DNA sample from the suspect has been found to match with the rape victims,” he said.
Laraik said that it is likely that suspect is being involved in more than 20 rape cases committed in the district.
The DIG East said that the suspect belongs to Jhang district of Punjab, who came to Karachi for employment four-five years ago.
The police official said that the suspect works in a private textile mill and also resides there, and targeted minors aged between seven to eight years old.
He said that the suspect was apprehended with the help of CCTV footage, and as many as five mobile phones were recovered from him.
Larak said that Police on inspection found Rs0.3 to 0.4million transactions in the suspect’s bank account.
According to reports, 1,764 cases of child abuse reported in the first six months of 2017
According to the numbers released by Sahil, an organisation that works on child protection with a special focus on sexual abuse, a total of 1,764 cases of child abuse were reported from across the country in the first six months of 2017 alone.
In the previous year, the total number of reported child abuse cases stood at a staggering 4,139, bringing the total number of children being abused in Pakistan per day to 11.
27 percent of cases reported were from Sindh province.
