ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court wrapped up on Wednesday the hearing of the murder case of four-year-old Asma, who was raped and murdered in Mardan.
While hearing the suo motu notice on the case, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar asked if the accused has been arrested. To which Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Deputy Advocate General Abdul Latif Yousufzai responded in affirmative, giving details of the accused, Ghulam Nabi, who has been caught.
The court then directed authorities concerned to file a charge sheet against the accused within 10 days and wrapped up the case.
Earlier on 12, the suspect in the rape and murder case of four-year-old Asma in Mardan, Nabi, confessed to his crime before a court.
On February 7, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police had claimed to have arrested the 15-year-old main suspect who was a close relative of the minor girl.
The accused in his confessional statement stated that he had taken Asma to a sugarcane field and tried to sexually abuse her. However, after the child cried, he strangled her to death.
Asma had gone missing on January 14 in Mardan’s Gujar Garhi area, and her dead body was found from sugarcane fields near her home on January 15. Forensic testing confirmed that the child was subjected to sexual abuse before being killed.
