Why did the father kill the girl who was found at the metro station in Islamabad and how did the police reach the killer?
On the morning of November 8, police found the body of an unidentified girl in a washroom under construction at a metro station in the federal capital Islamabad. The girl, dressed in a white dress with half-opened eyes, had scars on her neck and face.
The father of the 11- to 12-year-old girl has confessed to killing his daughter several days later before the police and now in court.
But who was this girl who was identified as Saleha Fatima and how did her own father Muhammad Wajid confess to killing her and how did the police succeed in solving the mystery of this senseless murder?
Police officials said in an emergency press conference on Tuesday evening that although the case was under investigation and confirmation of whether or not the girl had been abused would come out after a DNA report, police said in the case. The father of the accused said that the daughter was a burden on him.
Lady Constable Umbereen Kayani told the BBC she received a phone call on November 8 saying "a woman's body has been found. Come on, but when I went there it was the body of a little girl."
It was eight-thirty on the morning of November 8 when I went there. I saw that the girl was very young. When I looked, she had a bone fracture in front of her neck. On the side were three nails and thumbs and four fingerprints. Other than that, he didn't seem to be hurt. Her clothes were also very clean. After a preliminary investigation at the scene, we sent her body to Pims Hospital.
She says the initial police investigation revealed that the girl had a fractured neck bone and died of suffocation.
Police appeal on social media to identify the body
The incident, which took place at Sector G-114 bus station in Islamabad, was registered under FIR Section 302 at Ramna Police Station, one kilometer away.
On the same day, the Islamabad Police posted an appeal on the social networking site Twitter under the headline 'Search for heirs', asking citizens to help identify the girl.
Two days later, police provided additional information with a photo of the girl, who is under 14 years old and wearing a white dress and white socks. The police then appealed to anyone who knows or has any information about the girl to call the numbers provided by the police.
Acting DSP Fayyaz Shinwari, who is part of the police investigation team, told the BBC that it was a seven-day incident that police found out the next morning.
He said that announcements were also made in the mosques so that information about the girl's family could be found and her identity could be ascertained but the police got more help when the pictures of the girl were shared on social media.
During the course of their investigation, police found footprints of the killer and cigarette butts at the scene. But the police could not find out who the girl was.
While questions were being raised on social media about the performance of the police, the safety of the capital and Safe City, the family of the girl contacted the police after seeing her picture.
"An uncle of the girl identified her and called her brother in Karachi who was first serving in the army and now in the police," said Fayyaz Shinwari.
He said that according to the police investigation, the girl's father Muhammad Wajid was called by his brothers and asked where the girl was, then the father replied that the girl was sleeping with him but then the family members He said that the pictures of the girl were being taken. Go to the police immediately.
Police officials say the girl was identified on November 15.
According to the police officer, two uncles of the girl also reached Pims and then their father also came. The girl was identified and thus we got success.
The investigating officer in the case said that the day the father's brothers called him, they came to the police station. "We took blood samples to find out if he was the real father of the girl. Then we let him go. But based on the evidence found during the interrogation, he was arrested again.
But how did the police find out that the killer was the girl's father?
According to police officer Fayyaz Shinwari, we called the brothers of the girl's father who told them that his brother had lied to them on the phone that the girl was sleeping with him. Police also learned that the girl's father had earlier complained to his brother about his daughter's role while talking on the phone.
Police were also helped to reach the killer by the statement of the bike rider on whose bike the father had traveled with his daughter.
DSP Fayyaz Shinwari, while giving details in this regard, said that the accused went to a private office in G-11 on November 8 after killing his daughter and informed them that he had left his daughter with her mother. And that this work should be given now.
Police officials say Wajid, who used to work as a security guard in Karachi years ago, was now driving and had separated from his wife years ago.
Police have learned from the records that the accused's wife had sought help from the police during her stay in Karachi as her husband used to lock her in a room on suspicion.
Police say Wajid hails from Pakistan-administered Kashmir and had gotten a job as a driver in Fateh Jang through a private office after killing his daughter.
Police say the man had been sitting on the sidewalk with his daughter for the past two years and had stopped teaching her for the same period.
During the interrogation, it was also found out that the girl used to stay with her grandmother and uncle but now she has been with her father for two years. The girl's father had divorced her mother 10 years ago. Later, the man remarried and divorced her as well.
"We found out about the girl's father through CCTV footage and CDR (call detail record)," Fayas Shinwari said. Obtained records from a private bike rider company which helped in understanding the matter.
It was a surprise to the police why no contact was being made despite the disappearance of the girl by the father or the family and the announcements made by us.
He said the girl's father was addicted to cigarettes. "We saw him smoking a lot. His body language was unusual and he seemed to be very satisfied that no one knew anything but the police were suspicious of him."
According to the police investigating officer, apart from footprints, at the place where the girl was killed at the metro station, among other things, they also found cigarette butts of the same brand. Was drinking
According to police, the accused told police that he had killed his daughter in the name of honor.
Police officials say he told us he had thrown the girl's bag into a nearby ditch, which police also recovered.
The girl's father told police on Tuesday that he wanted to testify in court that he had killed his daughter. The police officer told the BBC that they produced the accused in court where he confessed to the crime after which he was sent to jail on judicial remand.