Man accused of raping child in Kahuta sent on judicial remand

ISLAMABAD: A man accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old child near Kahuta has been sent to jail on a judicial remand, police said on Sunday.

According to police sources, the accused, Taimoor, was seen in an ‘objectionable state’ with the victim as parents looked for their child in a nearby forest.

“The accused picked up the minor from a playground and took him to the forest near Jagiot Khalsa village where he subjected the child to rape,” victim’s lawyer Khawar Riaz Qadri told The Express Tribune.

Qadri, who is also a local rights activist, said the police have registered a case against the alleged offender on the complaint of the victim’s father.



The victim was taken to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for medical legal examination but due to his precarious condition he was referred to the Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, a team of provincial government’s Child Bureau also arrived at the hospital to offer assistance to the aggrieved family.

The child’s father, Naseer, told the police that he along with his wife started a search for their son when he did not return home on Friday afternoon, according to the contents of the FIR.

Naseer was informed by a local resident that he had seen the suspect taking Adil [the victim] towards a nearby forest and when the parents reached at the site they found both in an ‘objectionable position’ while the boy was crying for help, the report said. The suspect, however managed the escape from the scene, it added.

The accused was later booked under Sections 377 and 367-A of the Pakistan Penal Code and rounded up by the police from a local village Tarakhian. The victim’s lawyer went on to claim that the suspect also made a confessional statement before the police during his three-day custody on a physical remand.



Sources said the medical report of the victim obtained by the police confirmed the occurrence of the offence after which the accused was taken to Lahore for a DNA test to further substantiate the case for prosecution.

According to Section 377 of the PPC, which is applicable for committing the unnatural offence, the accused is liable to a 10-year imprisonment with a heavy fine whereas Section 367-A provides for death sentence and a heavy fine.