KARACHl: Police on Friday made no progress in the rape and murder of a six-year-old boy, whose body was found in a desolated place near Port Qasim.

Doctors had confirmed that the boy was also subjected to criminal assault before being killed.

The Sukkan police had found the boy`s body, wrapped in a bedspread, dumped in a dried up drain near the bridge close to the Port Qasim. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to ascertain the cause of death.

Area SHO Zubair Nawaz said medicolegal officer Dr Rajendar Kumar confirmed that the boy was murdered after criminal assault.

The police have registered an FIR on behalf of the state under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 377 (rape), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unknown suspects.

The officer hinted at the possibility that the boy was assaulted and killed somewhere and later on his body was thrown near Port Qasim.

Despite passing two days, the identification of the boy could not be made so far as no one had approached the police.-Staff Reporter