A man in Lahore allegedly raped a teenage factory worker and killed him by pumping air into his belly in the Kahna area of the city.
Geo News reported that the 15-year-old boy was killed after being raped.
Dawn reports that Hassan Ali was an employee at a factory.
Police say that the victim was shifted to a hospital in critical condition and eventually died.
The suspect has been arrested, and a case has been lodged against him.
Hassan’s father, Nadeem Iqbal, lodged the FIR with the local police and named Shazor as the primary suspect, who also worked at the same factory as the victim. He allegedly raped the boy on the premises of the industrial unit.
The boy’s father has stated in the FIR that the deranged accused pushed air into the victim’s stomach, which ruptured his abdomen.
He also said the factory management initially tried to mislead him by saying his son died after he suffered injuries at work.
Hassan’s father urged the police to ensure that the culprit was punished.
An initial report by Dawn suggests that in November 2019, a similar incident was reported in the Kahna area, where a blind street beggar was also allegedly murdered by three suspects in the same way.
Sahil, an organisation working for the protection of children’s rights, released a Six Month Cruel Numbers data early in August, revealing that a total of 1,630 cases of child abuse were reported from across the country.
The data also shows that out of the total reported cases, (962) 59 percent of victims were girls and (668) 41 percent were boys.
The data shows that the most vulnerable age group remains children aged 6-15, with 693 cases reported in this bracket. Additionally, 94 cases involved children aged 0-5, 231 children were from the 16-18 age bracket, and in 612 cases, the age of the victims was not mentioned.
In the year 2024, January-June, the abusers involved in 47pc of the total cases were acquaintances, 18pc were strangers, while nine per cent of acquaintances, along with strangers, committed crimes against children.
In the first six months of 2024, 78 per cent of the total cases were reported from Punjab and 6pc from the ICT. The rest of the cases were reported from other provinces, including 11 per cent of cases from Sindh, 3pc cases from KP, and 2pc cases from Balochistan, AJK and GB.
Out of the total reported cases, 44pc were from urban areas, and 56pc were from rural areas.
