Minor girl rape case: ‘Officials trying to forge records’

Father claims that health officials were trying to forge medical records in favour of the accused rapist

HYDERABAD: Family of a minor girl, who was allegedly subjected to rape in Kashmore-Kandhkot district in September, 2016, has accused health officials of trying to save the alleged rapist. At a press conference on Monday, the father of the 11-year-old victim, Muhammad Hashim Lashari, claimed that health officials were trying to forge medical records in favour of the accused rapist. He claimed that the medical report prepared by medical officer Dr Ghazala Irfan on October 29 last year had established rape.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 31^st, 2017.