In addition to the death penalty, the ATC judge sentenced Usman Bengali to 14 years in jail. The eight-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son of the convict’s next-door neighbor Intezar Hussain in Hyderabad were abducted in 2019.
The son was afterward hurt by Bengali with a sharp object before being thrown on the Airport Road. The young girl was then taken by the inmate to a house that was still being built in Bismillah City, where she was raped.
After her injured brother provided a statement to police, the suspect was detained and the victim’s dismembered body was found. According to a source, 114 incidences of child sexual abuse were reported in Pakistan in August, including at least 136 kidnapped women and 71 rapes. According to the research, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, kidnapping, and physical assault of women received the most coverage in the country’s mainstream media last month.
According to a report by the Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) and the Centre for Research, Development, and Communication (CRDC), the most frequently reported crimes in the nation’s mainstream media last month were kidnapping and physical assault of women, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse. With a total of 136 cases, which is practically identical to July’s tally of 133, kidnapping of women was the most often reported crime in the media for the fourth consecutive month.
Punjab alone recorded up to 80 of these occurrences, whereas Sindh had 31 cases. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, and Balochistan, respectively, 11, 8, and 6 instances were reported. In comparison to the previous month, there were over 87 occurrences of physical assault on women were reported. Only two cases were recorded from Balochistan, while 52 cases were reported in Punjab, 20 cases in Sindh, 13 cases in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and 20 cases in Balochistan. Domestic violence cases also saw similar statistics, falling from 94 instances last month to 83 cases this month.
Punjab was where half of the instances were reported (42). Regarding the other provinces, Balochistan and Islamabad reported 6 and 5 instances, respectively, while K-P and Sindh recorded 17 and 13 cases, respectively. In August, 71 incidences of rape and other sexual assault against women were reported nationwide, down from 85 occurrences in July.
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Punjab reported the most cases with 41, then Sindh and K-P reported roughly comparable numbers with 12 and 10 cases, respectively, then Balochistan reported 6 cases, and Islamabad reported the fewest cases with 1. (2). Eighty percent of the 20 women who were murdered in August (16 incidents) and two each in Sindh and K-P were reported from the Punjab region. In addition, 11 women were murdered in the guise of “honor,” up from 7 cases the previous month. Six of these incidents occurred in Punjab, followed by four in K-P and one in Sindh.
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