The daughter and two sons of Khan Muhammad Marri were sexually assaulted, police surgeon Dr Ayesha Fayyaz has claimed as the investigation into the Barkhan murder mystery enters the next stage.

The statement from the police surgeon came after the DNA samples of the recovered individuals were taken to check the possibility of sexual abuse.

The Barkhan murder case is a tale of triple homicide in Balochistan that was initially a hostage crisis but turned into a murder mystery in less than a week.

Farzana, 17, Abdul Majeed, 19, and Abdul Sattar, 13, were sexually assaulted, she claimed, adding that Marri’s wife Granaz Naz, 50, was not raped but was physically tortured.

No sign of torture was found during the examination of Marri’s sons, she said. “There was a burn mark from the cigarette on the left foot of the daughter.”

Sardar Abdur Rehman Khetran and his nephew tortured and sexually assaulted them, the victims told the police surgeon.

Abdul Majeed, the eldest son, in his statement, said that the provincial minister had locked them in a house in Quetta. “Two to three days ago, we were handed over to a man in Dakki,” he said. “When he came to know that the police were looking for us, he left us. Police had rescued us from Dakki.”

Granaz revealed that Abdul Rehman had kept her in Khetran’s private jail for eight years. “We were tortured and assaulted in the prison,” she said. “We were beaten up and locked up in the room.”

Marri’s wife said that she was separated from her eight sons. They were also kept in other prisons.

The incident

The authorities are closest to solving a triple homicide in Balochistan.

The three mysterious bodies discovered in a well in Barkhan continue to be the focus of a Marri tribe sit-in or dharna in Quetta. These two males and a female are, however, unlikely to be the children of Khan Mohammad Marri, as he initially claimed.

The family was rescued by the Levies.

Oddly, though, two of his sons were recovered from Kohlu, two from Dera Bugti, and a son and daughter from Dukki. They were kept at Marri tribesmen’s homes. Khan Mohammad Marri maintains though that the bodies from the well are also his children.

The protesting Marri tribesmen had demanded that an FIR be registered and arrests are conducted. On Friday, the Khan of Kalat’s young brother Senator Prince Omar Ahmadzai Khan said that a Jirga had found that all demands had been met which is why the sit-in should end. Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman is in London but he granted his younger brother permission to hold a Jirga at their residence to tackle the issue.