MARDAN: Two suspects were arrested after one DNA matched on Tuesday inmurder and rape case related to minor girl named Asma.
After receiving the forensic report sent to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)police by Punjab government, raids were conducted in which policemenarrested two suspected men.
Sources told that one of the arrested suspects is family relative of theminor. Both suspects are below 30 and have been transferred to an unknownlocation.
The law enforcement officials are interrogating the suspects alleged ofraping and murdering Asma.
Out of the 145 DNAs collected within the vicinity of 2-3 kilometers radiusof the incident in Mardan, only one matched. The development has beenunearthed by forensic lab sources but the name of the offender has not beenrevealed yet.
The final report will be compiled and sent to the Supreme Court (SC) ofPakistan along with KP government and government of Pakistan. SC hadremarked dissatisfaction over the progress in the Asma murder case earliertoday where KP authorities were summoned.
The four-year-old had gone missing on January 14 in Mardan’s Gujar Garhiarea, and her dead body was found from sugarcane fields near her home onJanuary 15 after rape.