Tag: Baghbanpura

  • Father, stepmother arrested after girl tortured to death

    Father, stepmother arrested after girl tortured to death

    A minor girl identified as Muskan was allegedly tortured to death in her Baghbanpura home on Shalimar Road in Lahore.

    The body of eight-year-old Muskan showed clear signs of torture.

    Dawn reports that police took her father and stepmother into custody for interrogation after neighbours claimed they had previously abused the girl over trivial matters.

    A police official told Dawn that a next-door neighbour alerted them when they heard the girl crying.

    However, when they arrived at the scene, police found the girl with severe wounds all over her body.

    She succumbed to the injuries including deep cuts on her neck. Her swollen limbs indicated she had been beaten with a hard object. There were signs of burns on her arms.

    Additionally, police cordoned off certain areas of the house for forensic analysis.

    Muskan’s father had remarried and the young girl had reportedly occasionally faced brutal treatment from her stepmother, according to the neighbours.
    A police investigation is going on to determine the father’s role in the alleged abuse leading to Muskan’s death.

    An autopsy report is awaited.

  • Child domestic worker, 9, found dead at employer’s home

    Child domestic worker, 9, found dead at employer’s home

    Ehsan, a 9-year-old domestic worker, was allegedly sodomized and then murdered by his employer Shan Ali, an estate agent, in Lahore. The employer claims that the boy committed suicide by hanging himself.

    The incident occurred in Baghbanpura, Lahore on Tuesday as per the police. A murder case has been lodged while Shan has been nominated in the FIR on the complaint of the child’s mother, Nawab Bibi.

    The child, a resident of Kasur, was sent to work as a house help at Shan’s residence some five years ago. According to the mother, her brother-in-law, Imran, used to collect wages from the employer while family members were not allowed to meet the boy. They met him only once in five years. The suspect himself called the family to inform them that the boy has taken his own life. Reportedly, the alleged killer shifted the body to the morgue before the boy’s parents arrived at his home. She told the police that her son was sodomized and then hanged by Shan.

    The alleged murderer has already fled the scene, while the police is in search of the suspect.