House maid found hanging in Karachi’s DHA was murdered, confirms report

A housemaid was found hanging from the ceiling of a house in Defense Housing Authority (DHA) area in Karachi and now reports have confirmed that she was actually murdered.

Her alleged murderers had first killed her and later hung her body from the ceiling of a room, portraying her death as an apparent suicide.

An autopsy was conducted by a four-member medical board at the Civil Hospital in Karachi on the 17-year-old’s body and it was confirmed that it was not a case of suicide.

“The girl was tortured to death, ” Dr Karar Hussain, a senior medico-legal officer MLO who was part of the panel, told reporters.

“Torture marks were found on the girl’s face, lips and chest,” he added.

“However, samples have to been sent to laboratory to ascertain if the girl was sexually assaulted or not.”

Fatima was employed at a house located on Khayaban-e-Badar in DHA’s phase VI and her employers had provided her with a room in the house. According to Fatima’s parents, she was tortured to death by her employers. However, initially the police claimed that the housemaid had committed suicide.

After Fatima’s body was handed to her family, they protested by staging a sit-in along with her body and asked the authorities to investigate the case again. A medical board was formed to conduct an autopsy again, which released its report and presented its reservations about the handling of the entire case. The board also recommended that the crime scene should be investigated again.

Meanwhile Fatima’s father had his side of the story to share as well; “She [Fatima] called us last Friday night and said she was going on a picnic. When we asked about money, she said the house owner had arranged for it. Now, we have received the news of her death,” said the teenager’s father, adding that the employer used to give his daughter extra money and recently gifted her a smartphone without his wife’s knowledge.

“There are clear torture marks on her body, but after receiving a bribe police have given a statement in favour of the house owner,” he claimed, appealing to the chief justice of Pakistan to take notice of the incident.

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