KARACHI: The city police have arrested a 16-year old boy for killing his roommate, who allegedly tried to rape him at their single-room quarter in the Janjal Goth area near Super Highway.
According to details, the deceased person was identified as 52-year-old Muhammad Hashim. SITE SHO Imam Bakhsh said that according to the statement of the boy, Hashim tried to rape him.
Meanwhile, the teenager tried to scare him away with a knife, but Hashim tried to grab the knife, which hit him and he died, while the boy got injured in the scuffle.
SHO Bakhsh said the victim and the accused are from Bajaur and they sell green tea kahwa. “Police however are investigating the matter from various angles”, the SHO said.
Separately, a man was allegedly caught naked trying to rape a 10-year-old girl in a room next to his shop in the Madina Colony area of Karachi’s Khokhrapar.
The child had gone to the neighbourhood shop to buy some candy, when the shopkeeper lured her into his small room behind the racks. Luckily, the child’s grandfather sitting in the lane, saw her enter the shop, instead of buying the goods from the roadside counter.
He raised a hue and cry on which neighbourhood people stormed the store where they found the suspect naked, with the child cowering in a corner. He was given a sound thrashing before being handed over to the local police.
