Furthermore, after completion of postmortem and other legal proceedings on the body of the disabled girl, the body has been re-buried under tight security.
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has sought report from Commissioner and RPO Sahiwal about the desecration of a minor girl’s dead body at a graveyard in Okara.
In a statement, he directed to take stern legal action against those accused and ordered effective measures to prevent such incidents in future. He directed that proper lighting should be arranged in the grave and those who visit graveyards at night should be closely monitored.
Meanwhile, Police Station B Division Okara registered a case against the accused and arrested two persons including a grave digger. The uncle of the deceased teenager approached the police and filed an FIR regarding the same. Based on the FIR, the police have started investigating the case. Reportedly, it is still unclear how many men were involved in this shocking incident.
According to local media reports, the teenage deceased girl, who was mentally and physically handicapped, died on May 4, Wednesday. The family buried her in the graveyard as per their religious traditions at around 6 pm in the evening and returned home.
The body of a disabled girl was taken out of the grave and desecrated in Gujarat yesterday. The girl’s uncles said that their disabled niece, who was 18 years old and was completely mentally and physically disabled and she passed away on April 4.
The uncle of the deceased girl said in the petition that we had buried the girl. However, the next morning when they went to her grave to offer Fateha, they saw that her grave had been dug and the body was lying outside the grave.
The next day, when they returned to the graveyard to perform some rituals over the girl’s dead body the kin found the grave dug up and the girl’s body missing. Upon searching, they later found the corpse lying around 200 square feet away from the graveyard. It showed signs of rape.
The shocked family members rushed to the police station to file a complaint and demanded that the perpetrators of the heinous crime be brought to justice as soon as possible. The police, in turn, began their searches to look for and detain the grave-digger.
This is not the first such incident in Pakistan. In 2021, some unknown men had carried out a similar barbaric act in Maulvi Ashraf Chandio village near coastal town Ghulamullah. In 2019, OpIndia also reported about in similar crime wherein a group of unidentified men dug up the grave of a woman in a graveyard in Karachi’s Landhi Town area and raped the dead body.
In 2011, a gravekeeper named Muhammad Rizwan from North Nazimabad, Karachi was arrested for necrophilia. He was arrested after he confessed to raping 48 female corpses. Rizwan was caught running away after desecrating a corpse. He had caught the attention of nearby grave diggers and some other people.
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