Eight-year-old rescued from ‘cruel masters’

An eight-year-old boy was rescued on Thursday from a house in Clifton where he was a domestic worker for a couple who subjected him to repeated torture over minor mistakes.

The Darakhshan police raided the house situated on Khayaban-e-Shamsheer on the complaint of the boy’s father, Muhammad Ishaq, who said he had left his son, Ali Asghar, at the house two years ago and was barred from seeing him since then.

SHO Ehsan Zulfiqar said the father told the police that the owner of the house did not allow him to meet his son, and that the owner also refused his request to let his son visit him in Badin.

The officer said that when the father repeated his request on Thursday, the house owner refused it again, following which he filed a police complaint against his son’s employers.

A police team rescued the boy from the house and arrested the house owner, Ali Rizwan Sheikh. Police have registered a case against him and started further investigation.

Clifton SP Dr Assad Malhi said the police found torture marks on the minor’s body. “The boy told the police that the owner of the house and his wife beat him up brutally over minor mistakes.”

The officer said the boy was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a medico-legal examination. “The police are interested in ascertaining the intensity of the torture that the boy was subjected to by his employers to initiate proper action against them.”