Charsaddah rape, murder case: Key suspect arrested, confesses to crime

Police have apprehended a key suspect involved in sexual assault and murder of two-and-a-half-year-olf girl in Charsaddah, local media reported on Saturday.

As per details, the minor girl, identified as Zainab, had gone missing on Tuesday evening in Sheikh Kallay Qilla area while playing with other children outside her house.

The body of the girl was found on Wednesday lying in Jabba Korona area. The Prang and Daudzai police recovered the body and shifted it to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for postmortem.

According to police, the suspected, aged between 45 and 50, belongs to the same village and has confessed to having committed the felony in a statement.

He identified the place where he committed the crime when he was escorted to there by a police team amid tight security.

Police said they interrogated more than 300 people in the case, after which all but 15 suspects were released. One of those 15 suspects has now allegedly confessed to the crime.

Moreover, the police recovered a sickle the suspect used to murder the victim following information provided by him.

He had kidnapped the minor from outside her house and took her to fields where he subjected her to sexual abuse before brutally murdering her, Geo News citing its sources reported.