Family members of the victim alleged that after committing the crime on January 7, the accused from the same village tried to kill her and left the place assuming that she was dead.

Doctors attending to the girl, who is in a critical condition, said, both her eyes were damaged but it is yet to be ascertained whether she has completely lost her eyesight.

On January 11, the body of the victim, a resident of Laung Khan Larik area in Khairpur was found in a banana orchard

The accused has been arrested and the girl has been sent for medical examination, the SHO said.

The incident took place on Saturday when the 38-year-old accused barged into the victim's hut at a village in Talasari taluka while she was sleeping with her mother.

The incident took place at around 11 pm on April 29, 2018, when the man raped the girl while she was sleeping with her mother.

The victim, a slum-resident was playing with her friends inside the bus that was parked nearby.

The SIT chief said that the accused youth's younger sister happened to be a close friend of the victim

The accused ran an online child porn racket with his US-based wife, officials said

The accused fled the spot after villagers were alerted by the girl's cries for help but was later arrested

The 30-year-old man, who has a criminal background, kidnapped the girl from her house at night and took her to his residence where he allegedly raped and then killed her

The victim had been working in Greater Kailash where she befriended the juvenile accused, a senior officer said.

The accused was also fined Rs 55,000 for the crime

Beyond just engaging boys and men, gender transformative programmes have to catch them young and focus on solidarity too

According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Awadhesh Singh, the age of the two accused is between 11-14 years.

A 10-year-old girl who lived in the same neighbourhood had gone near the couple's house to play.

A Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Tuesday also decided to change the definition of rape

The lungs were removed to perform black magic, believing that it will help a woman give birth to a child, say police

Most of the offenders are the victims’ relatives, say police

Reporting of rape cases fell marginally by one per cent and murder by nine per cent.