Investigating officer issued show-cause notice in teenage girl’s murder case in Karachi

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate issued on Monday a show-cause notice to an investigating officer for his unexplained absence and failure to file an investigation report in a case pertaining to the murder of a teenage girl.

Police have booked the 18-year-old girl with her fiancé for allegedly killing her 16-year-old sister during what the police claimed a staged robbery in her home on Dec 5 in a Malir locality while two young men, brothers, were also held for abetment.

On a previous hearing, the detained girl and her fiancé had also recorded their confessional statements before a judicial magistrate (east). The magistrate had directed the investigating officer to file the investigation report at next hearing.

However, when the case came up for hearing on Monday, the IO was found absent and the court issued a show-cause notice to him with the direction that he come on Jan 8 with a reply over his unexplained absence and failure to file a report.

The detained girl had admitted that she had killed her sister as the victim was blackmailing her while her fiancé said that he and the female suspect slit the victim’s throat.

Police said the teenage girl had, with the help of her fiancé, allegedly orchestrated the murder of her younger sister as the victim had friendship with one of the detained brothers. She allegedly helped both brothers to visit her home in the absence of their parents and to blackmail the female suspect.

Initially, the FIR was lodged under Sections 397 (dacoity or robbery with attempt to cause death or grievous injury) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on a complaint of the deceased’s father at the Saudabad police station.

According to the FIR, two men broke into the house for robbery, stabbed the teenage girl to death for putting up resistance and took away cash, jewellery and other valuables.

However, the IO replaced Section 397 with Sections 302 (punishment for premeditated murder), 376 (punishment for rape) and 109 (abetment) of the PPC in the remand papers.

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courtesy-Dawn, January 2nd, 2018

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