A little girl was kidnapped, murdered and then her body was thrown into a jungle in Lahore after the abductor could not receive ransom, police said on Friday. The kidnapper, Kashif Raza, was a friend of five-year-old Fajar’s father and also a neighbour, said the police. Kashif kidnapped Fajar from Batapur area of Lahore for ransom and when he could not receive any money he killed her by strangling her and threw her body in jungle. The police have recovered the remains of Fajar’s body from jungle and have also arrested the accused. Fajar’s father Arshad had already loaned Rs1 million to Kashif Raza for doing business. Kashif had kidnapped Fajar on August 10 and kept demanding ransom from her father but murdered her in the evening on the same day, said his statement which he gave to the police. The police recovered Fajar’s clothes and hair, after getting information from the accused, and sent them for forensic.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan