University student confesses to murdering 13-year-old schoolgirl

A post-graduate University student on Sunday 22 August 2021 confessed to murdering a schoolgirl. He had strangled the young girl of 13 years and dumped her body in an out-of-use manhole in the courtyard of his house, located in Abbaspur area of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), as reported by Dawn. (Naqash, 2021). The victim was related to her murderer and actually lived next door to him, according to Assistant Commissioner Abbaspur Syed Tassawar Kazmi. The victim was reported missing by her father, who, relying on a text message, stated to the police that she had been “trapped and abducted by some Mohammad Rafaqat, resident of Sargodha”. Upon the father’s complaint, police registered a First Information Report (FIR) and started an investigation into the murder.