Bail challenged: Court summons gang rape suspect

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has directed a suspect accused of raping a girl to ensure his appearance at the next hearing on the prosecution department’s appeal, challenging the bail granted to him following a ‘compromise’ with the victim.

The Race Course police had arrested prime suspect Adnan Sanaullah and his accomplices Abdul Majid, Muhammad Umar, Ameer Ahmad, Haris, Bilawal, Imran Shahid and Qamar Zaman on charges of abducting a teenage girl and subjecting her to gang rape at a private hotel.

The prosecution submitted a sessions court had granted bail to Adnan, a former office-bearer of PML-N Youth Wing, after the survivor tendered an affidavit in his favour. It contended the girl and her family were pressured by the accused to file the affidavit. The girl in her first testimony recorded before a judicial magistrate had maintained that Sanaullah was the prime suspect of the gang rape.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2016.