A judicial magistrate has recorded a confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of a three-year-old girl.
The child’s body was recovered from a street in Qabail Colony in Block 11 of Gulberg Town on October 9. The investigating officer produced the detained suspect, Naseer, before the judicial magistrate (Central) and moved an application to record his confessional statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
After completing legal formalities, the magistrate recorded the statement of the suspect, who confessed to his involvement in the assault and murder of the girl. After the confession, the court remanded the suspect to jail on judicial remand with a direction to the investigation officer to submit a report within a stipulated time.
An FIR has been registered under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Gulberg police station on the complaint of the child’s uncle as her father was in Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah. Citing the child’s initial postmortem report, the police had earlier said she was sexually assaulted and strangled to death.
Published in News Daily on 15-October-2024.