DIJKOT: A four-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and strangled by a teenage cousin, police said on Mar 10.
According to the police, Muhammad Imtiaz, a resident of Sulaimania Colony, reported that his granddaughter, Anaya Jannat, had gone outside to play but gone missing.
The police registered a case and initiated a search, reviewing CCTV footage from the area. In the footage, a 14-year-old resident of the same locality, was seen taking away the child on a motorcycle.
The suspect was taken into custody and he reportedly confessed to luring the girl onto his motorcycle on the pretext of buying her something.
He reportedly took her to Sidhu Pura, where he strangled her and threw the body into an irrigation channel in agricultural fields.
The police recovered the body from the channel on the suspect’s confession and shifted it to a hospital. The case, initially registered under Section 363, has been amended to include Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code, and the investigation is continuing.
News Published in Express Tribune on March 11th, 2026.
