*FAISALABAD: Punjab police on Saturday arrested two people including amilkman for allegedly raping and killing a seven-year-old girl inFaisalabad.*
According to police, the dead body of a seven-year-old girl was recoveredfrom a factory in Awami Street area of Faisalabad. Medico-legal examinationrevealed that the girl was brutally raped before being murdered.
The girl’s father said that his daughter went missing at around 1PM onFriday upon which they approached the police which recovered the girl’sbody from the factory after an hours-long search operation.
The police later arrested a milkman and his accomplice nominated in theFirst Information Report (FIR) for allegedly committing the heinous crime.
The incident is the latest in several child abuse cases in the country.Last year, the whole country was shaken by rape and murder ofseven-year-old Zainab Ansari in Punjab province’s Kasur.
Kidnapped on January 4 and found from a garbage heap on January 9, Zainab’sautopsy report suggested that the minor was sexually assaulted before beingstrangulated to death.
On January 21, the Supreme Court gave three days’ time to a jointinvestigation team formed to probe the rape and murder of Zainab to trackdown the culprit.
The JIT arrested the culprit named Imran Arshad on January 23 after the DNAproved that he was behind the rape and murder of Zainab and at least eightother girls from Kasur.