BUREWALA-A 12-year-old boy, who was missing since two days, was found brutally tortured to death after being sexually abused. Dead body of the boy was found from a tube-well at Chak 515/EB near PI-Link Canal here Saturday morning.
Ali Manzoor,12, son of Manzoor Ahmad, a Class 5th student and resident of Azimabad, Burewala, had gone missing since Thursday afternoon. He left his house for a nearby tuition centre and never returned. His parents and relatives searched him but did not find about his whereabouts.
Later, the police arrested a youth Ali Jaan,16, with help of CCTV footage showing the youth, a student of 9th class, was taking the victim on his motorcycle. Initially the suspect denied the allegations but last night when police arrested his mother, he confessed to his crime. He told the investigators that he took the boy to a place where he assaulted him sexually and later tortured him to death. The alleged killer later dumped the dead body at a tube-well near PI-Link Canal.
Following the revelation by the accused, the police recovered the dead body of Ali Manzoor. The Burewala City Police sent the dead body to THQ Hospital where a team of doctors conducted autopsy of the victim.
The medical team revealed cause of death might be suffocation as there were marks of severe torture on the dead body and the right leg was also broken. The police also included murder section in the kidnapping case and sent the samples of the deceased cloths, blood and body swabs to forensic laboratory Lahore.
Though the police claim that the arrested accused had committed the crime lonely but people of the area believe that there might be more suspects with him.
Vehari DPO Omar Saeed Malik constituted a joint investigation team in connection with the murder case and assured the family of justice.
Taking notice of the incident, Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif ordered an inquiry into the incident and sought a report from the DPO at the earliest.