[DAWN] LARKANA: A special investigation team has been formed to ascertain facts about the murder of a student of class-V, a senior police official said on Sunday.The victim was strangulated to death after an alleged sexual assault in Moria Faqeer village on the left bank of Dadu Canal, 23 kilometres from here, on July 24 within the remit of the Naudero cop shoppe.
She had left home to buy milk from a nearby cattle pen and did not return. The relatives mounted a search for the girl and found her body stuffed in a gunny bag in a guava orchard.
DIG-Larkana Irfan Baloch told Dawn that ASP-City Muhammed Kaleem Malik would head the team with two inspectors ‐ Ghulam Hussain Dahri and Yaseen Tagar ‐ and the SHO of the Naudero cop shoppe, Ali Hassan, as its members.
The team would probe into the contents of the FIR and submit a report, he added.
He said that Larkana SSP Masood Bangsh had written to the director general of the health services for constituting a medical board to assist the police in assessing medical evidence in the case.
Responding to a question, the DIG said exhumation or to rely on the earlier evidence would depend on the the medical board.
He said officers Dahri and Tagar, who were presently posted in Hyderabad range, had been included in the investigation team on the request of the bereaved family.
The inspector general of police had transferred them to Larkana to undertake the assignment, police sources said.
The sources said that the medical board would also examine the case to ascertain the actual age of the student of class eighth who had been arrested in the case.
The DIG said that relevant section of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 had been incorporated in the FIR, as the incident had triggered a sense of terror and harassment in the vicinity.
Police on late Saturday night had arrested another suspect nominated in the FIR and would obtain his remand from the court concerned on Monday (today).