A 13-year-old girl was found dead in a grave in a village in Thatta district of Sindh.
In a statement, police officials claimed that after the desecration of the body, the police immediately rushed to the spot and collected details.
The body of a 14-year-old girl was buried in a cemetery near Ghulamullah Town at 11pm on August 13 and was found in a sugarcane field the next day, the statement said.
The body was later taken to a hospital for medical examination, where the WMO confirmed that the body had been raped.
Police officials further said that a case of the incident was registered at the Soccer police station on the complaint of the affected parents in which Rafiq Chandio was named.
The statement further said that the accused was killed during a police encounter at Gharo police station at 1.30 pm on August 15.
Earlier, a report in Dawn newspaper said that in Maulvi Ashraf Chandio village of Thatta district of Sindh, unidentified persons took out the buried dead body of a young girl and raped her.
The girl's parents and relatives told reporters they believed a local thug, the son of a village chief, was involved in the heinous crime.
He said the 13-year-old girl had died of natural causes and had returned after being buried in the village cemetery the night before.
However, the next morning, when the parents arrived at the cemetery according to local traditions, they saw that the grave had been dug and the body was missing.
The body was later found in a ditch in a nearby forest with signs of rape.
He said that the parents reported the matter to the police but they did not pay any attention and considered this heinous crime as minor.
The report said the parents brought the body to the Civil Hospital in Thatta for an autopsy, where the medical superintendent confirmed the rape.
On the other hand, Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh had reached the said village and expressed sympathy with the affected parents.
After which, while talking to the media, he said that SHO Ghulam Hussain Kachhar, a resident of Sindh Chief Minister's constituency, should also be named in the case for criminal negligence.
He said that Sindh has become a state within a state where the leaders of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) rule their own areas.
Haleem Adil Sheikh said that PPP has lost its right to rule from Sindh government.
The case was not registered until the report was published.
