Shelter home rape case: Police produce woman, her son before court.

A judicial magistrate remanded mother and her son for two days in police custody in minor girl's rape case at shelter home in Korangi.

Police arrested the young son and female owner of the shelter home in Korangi's Allah Wala Town.

The investigating officer produced the suspects before a judicial magistrate to seek their physical remand for questioning.

The Investigation Officer (IO) submitted that the victim girl had left her home after her stepfather and his brother acted inappropriately after the death of her mother.

She took temporary shelter at the facility, but the owner's young son allegedly subjected her to a sexual assault, the IO said.

He said that the police had brought the victim to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a medical examination and doctors had obtained DNA samples for cross-matching.

The IO said that the...