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On Wednesday, a Lahore anti-terrorist court extended the physical detention of the alleged serial killer Suhail Shehzad, accused of raping and killing four minor children in Kasur's Chunian tehsil.<\/p>\n
Shehzad had been taken into police custody on October 2 and today the court granted a 14-day extension in his preventive detention.<\/p>\n
Judge Abdul Qayyum Khan, who presided over the hearing, asked the suspect "if he had been beaten in custody."<\/p>\n
"Nobody hit me," the suspect replied, adding: "I also request the same treatment this time."<\/p>\n
When the judge asked if Shehzad's medical examination had been carried out, the investigating officer responded affirmatively, saying that it had been carried out the same day it was ordered.<\/p>\n
During the last hearing, when Shehzad was presented to the anti-terrorism court for the first time, the investigative officer explained that the suspect had been taken to the court in search of a FIR registered against sexual assault and the murder of one of the four children . . <\/p>\n
The cases recorded for the other three children were being investigated by a joint investigation team, he explained.<\/p>\n
Today, the officer said the suspect's DNA had coincided in two more cases and that he will soon be taken to court also in the search for those cases.<\/p>\n
During the course of the hearing, Deputy Attorney General Abdul Rauf Watoo presented arguments before the court and also presented a report from the Punjab Forensic Science Agency with the results of the investigation so far.<\/p>\n
Police informed the court that the suspect's shoes he had worn at the crime scene had been recovered. <\/p>\n
The prosecutor's lawyer asked the court to grant a 30-day physical prison for Shehzad, but the court granted pretrial detention for 14 more days.<\/p>\n
Shehzad's arrest was announced by Punjab Prime Minister Usman Buzdar on October 1 through a detailed press conference revealing the methods used to discover the identity of the suspect.<\/p>\n
The prime minister confirmed that the suspect was behind the four cases of sodomy and murder that shook Kasur last month and shed new light on the continued prevalence of child sexual abuse in the country. "The case against him will be carried out in an anti-terrorism court where hearings will be held daily," he said.<\/p>\n
Four children, aged 8 to 12, had disappeared since June of this year, and the last, Faizan, aged 8, disappeared the night of September 16.<\/p>\n
The remains of three of them were found on September 17 in the sand dunes near the Chunian beltway, sending shock waves among residents of the area who protested to express their concern over the continuing anarchy and the inability of the police of protecting people's lives.<\/p>\n
The discovery was a bleak reminder of six-year-old Zainab Ansari, who was found dead in a pile of garbage near Shahbaz Khan Road in January 2018. It was the twelfth incident of its kind that occurred within a 10-kilometer radius in Kasur in a period of 12 months. His death had caused protests and outrage throughout the country.<\/p>\n
The main suspect, Imran Ali, had been arrested on January 23, 2018, and on June 12 the Supreme Court rejected his appeal against the death sentence, noting that he had admitted to committing similar crimes with eight other minor victims. Ali was subsequently executed in October of last year.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Kasur has been shaken by multiple incidents of abuse, rape and murder of children. <\/p>\n
In 2015, the Hussain Khanwala village of Kasur attracted worldwide attention when a child pornography ring was stopped. Hundreds of video clips have emerged showing a gang forcing dozens of younger children to perform sexual acts and film them. The gang also used the videos to blackmail the children's families and extorted millions of cash and jewelry.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n
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