Police solve newborn baby murder case in Karachi, arrest uncle

KARACHI: Surjani Town police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his two-and-a-half-month-old niece in Karachi, police said on Wednesday.

The body of the infant, identified as Noor Fatima, was recovered from a plastic water tank on the first floor of a house in Sector 7-B, Surjani Town, police said.

The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital through an Edhi ambulance for medico-legal formalities.

According to police, the girl had gone missing from the house in the morning. Family members searched for her and later found her body inside the water tank.

Initially, the child’s parents were taken into custody for questioning. However, preliminary investigation led police to identify the girl’s paternal uncle, Hammad Javed, as the main suspect.

SSP West Tariq Ilahi Mastoi said police arrested Hammad after questioning family members following the discovery of the child’s body.

According to the SSP, the suspect confessed to killing the infant, citing domestic disputes and personal reasons as the motive.

Police said the child’s parents had a love marriage and had previously been involved in a family dispute.

The girl’s mother had reportedly left for her parents’ home following an argument with Hammad’s wife a few days earlier, but her husband later brought her back.

The couple also have two sons, according to police.

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SSP West said interrogation of the child’s parents was still underway as investigators continued to establish the circumstances surrounding the killing.

A case is being registered at Surjani Police Station on behalf of the state, police said.

In a similar case involving a domestic dispute, a three-year-old girl, Kulsoom, was murdered in Karachi’s Quaidabad area.

Police said the child’s paternal aunt confessed during interrogation and told investigators that frequent disputes between the children of two brothers had caused tensions within the family.

According to investigators, the accused killed Kulsoom and placed her body in a sack before asking her brother, Nadir, to dispose of it.