{"id":8043,"date":"2023-09-26T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/another-prime-suspect-arrested-in-khairpur-maid-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:10:06","slug":"another-prime-suspect-arrested-in-khairpur-maid-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/another-prime-suspect-arrested-in-khairpur-maid-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Another prime suspect arrested in Khairpur maid murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Khairpur police on Tuesday said it had arrested another prime suspect in the nine-year-old housemaid Fatima Furro\u2019s murder case in Ranipur.<\/p>\n

The deceased girl was employed as a domestic maid at a haveli (mansion) owned by local influential Pir Asad Shah \u2014 who is now in custody \u2014 in Khairpur\u2019s Ranipur area and was found dead<\/a> under mysterious circumstances earlier this week.<\/p>\n

A case was subsequently lodged on the complaint of her mother, Shabnam Khatoon, under Sections 302 (intentional murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) at Ranipur police station and an investigation was initiated.<\/p>\n

Khairpur Senior Superintendent of Police Dr Samiullah Soomro told Dawn.com<\/em> today that Pir Asad\u2019s wife and suspect Hina Shah surrendered to the police near Hyderabad.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, we had been trying to locate her. Multiple police parties were deployed between Karachi and Hyderabad by us,\u201d he said, adding that Hina was being brought to Khairpur.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that Hina was nominated as co-accused in the first information report of the case but she escaped arrest as she had obtained interim pre-arrest bail from Sindh High Court\u2019s Sukkur bench.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Hina approached the Hyderabad circuit bench of the SHC for bail again. However, her application was rejected on account that she had earlier approached the court\u2019s Sukkur bench and was bailed for seven days but she failed to approach proper forum for seeking relief during the bail term.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Dawn.com<\/em> today, Hina\u2019s counsel Wali Mohammad Khoso said his client was supposed to appear before the Sindh High Court\u2019s circuit bench today in Hyderabad but she failed to do so.<\/p>\n

Court rejects Ranipur pir\u2019s petition<\/h2>\n

Khoso further stated that he had filed a contempt of court petition today against Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Noman Zafar, Inspector Abdul Jabbar Memon, Station House Officer (SHO) police station Sobho Dero, Inspector Mohammad Bachal Kazi, SHO police station Ranipur for arresting Fayyaz Shah \u2014 father of Hina and one of the co-accused.<\/p>\n

Ranipur police picked up Pir Fayaz Shah on Friday after he was given protective pre-arrest<\/a> bail till 26 September in the murder case by Sindh High Court\u2019s Hyderabad circuit bench on 20 September.<\/p>\n

However, the court today disposed of application on the grounds that it did not constitute contempt because Fayyaz Shah was arrested<\/a> in another case lodged, Khoro said.<\/p>\n

The case<\/h2>\n

Fatima\u2019s father Nadeem Ali Phariro had initially claimed that the girl was afflicted by some stomach-related ailment, as indicated by doctors when she was taken to a private hospital on the night of Aug 14-15.<\/p>\n

Later, the girl died in her house after having been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n

Claims about her death transpiring as a result of torture came to the fore when videos of a girl bearing torture marks went viral. It was not known who leaked the videos. These videos were obtained by the police team, which also met some social activists from the area.<\/p>\n

After the videos went viral in the district, police took notice of the matter and Sukkur Counterterrorism Department Deputy Superintendent of Police Abdul Qudoos Kalwar met the girl\u2019s parents. He later met social activists and viewed the viral videos, subsequently reporting to the police that the matter was serious and the exhumation of Fatima\u2019s body was required.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, Khairpur police constituted<\/a> a medical board to exhume the victim\u2019s body and conduct a post-mortem analysis.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> said that the girl\u2019s body was in an advanced stage of decomposition \u201cwith bluish discolouration on the right side of the face and forehead, and greenish mottled discolouration over the left side of the face, neck and shoulder\u201d.<\/p>\n

It added that her abdomen was distended while hands, feet and knees were \u201cblackish with wrinkled skin\u201d. It also noted that there was a \u201creddish blister\u201d on the right side of the perianal region (the area surrounding the anus).<\/p>\n

Documenting the injuries, the report said that the victim had bruising over the right side of her forehead and both eyes. It said that there was also bruising on her right upper chest and back while the front side of both her arms and forearms were also bruised.<\/p>\n

The report said that all the injuries were \u201cantemortem in nature\u201d, which means that they occurred before her death.<\/p>\n

After today\u2019s development, the three main accused, Pir Asad Shah, Hina Shah and Hina\u2019s father, Fayyaz Shah, are now in police custody.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khairpur police on Tuesday said it had arrested another prime suspect in the nine-year-old housemaid Fatima Furro\u2019s murder case in Ranipur. The deceased girl was employed as a domestic maid at a haveli (mansion) owned by local influential Pir Asad Shah \u2014 who is now in custody \u2014 in Khairpur\u2019s Ranipur area and was found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}