Another two suspects still at large; victim’s family complains of unfair treatment by police . PHOTO: FILE
The Koral police had booked four persons for allegedly intoxicating and raping the victim* in the Sharifabad area on July 28.
Pakistan's shameful denial of male rape
The police booked N*, S*, U* and an unidentified person for the offence on July 29. They were able to arrest two of the suspects on the same day. The other two suspects are still at large.
Koral SHO Abdur Rauf Kiani said the suspects confessed to raping the child during interrogation.
He said that the results of medical tests of the victim are still awaited.
The suspects were produced before the judicial magistrate on Friday and they were sent to jail on a judicial remand.
Talking to The Express Tribune, the victim’s father said the suspects picked up his son while he was playing in a ground.
One of the suspects told the victim that he was ill and asked him to drop him [the suspect] off at a local clinic as he could not ride his bike. The boy agreed to take the suspect to the clinic.
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The victim, a seventh grader, later told his father and the police that the suspect forced him to drink or swallow an intoxicant at gunpoint and raped him.
The victim was injured during the assault and is still receiving treatment at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).
The father also complained that he was being treated unfairly by the police and the doctors. “They are treating me as if I am a suspect,” he said, and added that the doctors at Pims who examined his son were not providing him with the test results. He claimed they were employing delaying tactics.
Sub-inspector Sher Ahmad, who was the assigned investigation officer, refused to comment, saying that the case had been transferred to another police official.
*NAMES WITHHELD TO PROTECT VICTIM’S IDENTITY
Published in The Express Tribune, August 6th, 2016.
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