KASUR: A 12 years old missing boy who was allegedly slaughtered after rape was buried on Saturday in village Dholan, in the limits of Khudian police station.

Police on Friday night recovered the body of the boy, a grade 5 student, adopted son of a rickshaw driver. According to first information report, the victim went missing on Friday as he went to the fields to bring fodder for the cattle. When the boy did not return for hours, the family members and villagers launched a search. Later, the family found his body from sugar cane fields.

It was the second rape-cum-murder case in the area in a few days. Earlier, B-Division police had recovered the body of a missing dwarf woman of Jamatpura locality in Kasur, who was strangled after rape in Multan.

Allahabad police meanwhile registered an FIR against a robber who raped a married woman.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2022

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