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| Protests continue against 7-year-old's 'rape', murder in Jaranwala |
| 2018-04-04 |
| [DAWN] Protests continued in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... 's Jaranwala tehsil on Tuesday following the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl whose body, bearing multiple torture marks, was found in a field two days ago. Shops and private schools remained shut in the area as a large number of civil society activists and relatives of the victim staged demonstrations. Lawyers in the area also boycotted court proceedings to take part in the protest. The protesters encircled the Jaranwala City cop shoppe and demanded justice for the minor girl. While speaking to DawnNewsTV on the condition of anonymity, a medico-legal officer called the postmortem examination report ‐ which was released yesterday ‐ confusing, saying it "doesn't clearly state whether the child was sexually assaulted or not". "The report seems to indicate that there were signs of sexual assault," the medico-legal officer said, sharing the suspicion that "the police may have wanted to bury the evidence". "Most importantly, the report does not state the cause of the child's death," the officer added. The medico-legal officer said that DNA samples have been taken from the body and dispatched to the Lahore forensic lab. |
| Posted by:Fred |