The accused Mehdi Hasan has been sent to jail on judicial remand on Friday (today) under the charges of raping a 16-year old girl in Karachi’s orphanage.

The police produced Mehdi Hasan before the court on completion of his physical remand.

Moreover, victim girl’s statement was recorded by a lady judge. Later, the accused was sent to jail and the court directed the investigation officer to submit a progress report on next hearing.

Earlier, the police arrested Mehdi after receiving the complain filed by victim’s aunt.

The Superintendent of Police (SP) Farooq Bijarani revealed that the incident occurred on May 26 at an orphanage.

The accused was an accountant working at the orphanage orphanage located on Kashmir Road where he raped the girl.

The victim spoke about the incident with her aunt on 13 June on which her aunt registered a cases against the accused .