Extreme cruelty, extreme negligence

After the arrest of the culprits responsible for raping a minor girl, the efficiency of Islamabad police has been badly exposed, as the accused revealed that he had stuffed the girl in a sack and had took her to the Industrial Area, crossing a police checkpost.

Sources told Pakistan Today that the alleged murderer stuffed the girl in a sack and carried her on his shoulders from Mango Town Margalla to Murree Road where he hired a taxi and took the girl to his flat in the Industrial Area.

This raised serious questions on the efficiency of police officials deputed at various pickets on numerous roads which had become a permanent source of inconvenience for the motorists, who had to wait in long queues to pass through these checkposts.

Quoting the confessional statement of the accused, sources told Pakistan Today that the accused, Abrar Ahmed, a native of Lala Mosa who worked as a supervisor at Ittahd Steel Mills in Industrial Area, met his girlfriend Mehak Qaisar’s at the latter’s house on February 12.

According to the statement, Mehak had been refusing Abrar’s advances for quite some time, despite the fact that they had been in a relationship since 2010, when they met at a university.

When Abrar saw Mehak’s 11-year-old student, Shehzadi Bibi, at her house, the accused asked Mehak if she was could persuade the student to fulfill his desires in her stead.

Mehak told Abrar that it was impossible as her other family members were at home at that time. However, she asked the accused to come over the next day at noon. On the other hand, she also directed Shehzadi Bibi to come at around noon.

On February 13, Mehak took a day off from her university, NUML, and stayed home. When Shehzadi Bibi reached her home at noon, Abrar forcibly attempted to rape the minor and broke her neck in the process. Due to this, Shehzadi Bibi became unconscious.

At this, Abrar and Mehak got frightened and stuffed the girl in a sack and Abrar took her to his flat in the Industrial Area.

Sources said Abrar carried the body on his shoulder for almost 1 kilometer, from Mehak’s House to Abbasi Hotel, where they hired a taxi. He sat on the front seat of the taxi and placed the sack on the back seat.

When he reached his flat, he forcibly raped the minor, killing her in the process.

After this, the Abrar telephoned Mehak and told her that after raping the girl he had killed her.

The accused revealed in his confessional statement that he got frightened and set the dead body on fire to get rid of his fingerprints on the 11-year-old’s body. Later, he dumped the body in a ditch behind a school in sector I/9-1.

The accused was arrested on the very next day from Industrial Area. On Saturday, Bharakau Police produced him before the court of the Civil Judge and sought his physical remand, which the court granted. His female accomplice, Mehak was on a pre-arrest bail until February 26. Sources said that the police had taken a statement from Mehak in which she confessed to every single detail.

On February 13, Shahzadi went missing from Mehak’s house situated at Bharakau. Subsequently, Shahzadi’s father got an FIR registered against Mehak Qaiser- the tutor, her father Qasiar Ali and her brother Shah Qaiser on charges of kidnapping. On February 16, Shahzadi’s incinerated body was found in a ditch in sector I/9-1. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) took a suo motu notice of the case after the incident was highlighted in the media.