Love hurts: Teenager blinded, emasculated for ‘relations with girl’
Judge orders completion of investigation and sets date for pre-arrest bail hearing.
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LAHORE:
An additional district and sessions judge ordered an investigation officer (IO) to conclude his probe into a case in which a suspect was accused of blinding and emasculating a ninth grade student. He fixed April 18 as the date for arguments over the pre-arrest bail application of the suspect.
Muhammad Hanif filed the application, claiming he had nothing to do with the case adding and was falsely implicated to humiliate him. He stated there was no source of information mentioned in the FIR.
In prior proceedings of the same case, the judge issued notices to the complainant and summoned the police record. Meanwhile, he awarded bail against the furnishing of bonds worth Rs.100,000.
According to the FIR got registered by one Muhammad Javed at Sundar police station under Section 324 of the PPC, the complainant’s son, Aish Muhammad, and his friend Waqar, were headed home on a motorbike after studies at a local academy. He added that was when four unidentified people intercepted them and started beating the two. The complainant added the assailants attacked Aish’s eyes with knives and damaged one of his testicles in the attack.
Talking to The Express Tribune, investigation officer Ghulam Mustafa stated the eyes of the victim were badly injured with knives, adding the complainant quoted doctors as saying the boy was permanently blinded. He said one testicle had to be removed as it was severely damaged.
To a query about the investigation, he said police had arrested Waqar and Ashfaq who were sent on judicial remand on April 11 by a judicial magistrate. He said they confiscated the knives from the possession of the suspects.
Other suspects, Amir, Shan and Azam, were also being investigated after the victim named them in his recorded statement before the police. The policeman added he did not see a big hand of these three in this case.
When asked the statements of the suspects, the IO said Waqar told the police that Aish Muhammad had illicit relations with daughter of Muhammad Hanif, the prime suspect. He added Hanif consequently ordered them to attack the victim on some agricultural land. Waqar confessed that the assailants attacked Aish with knives and also damaged a testicle.
He said the incident occurred on February 27 and the victim got recorded his statement on March 15.
Muhammad Sarwar, the uncle of victim Aish Muhammad, told The Express Tribune that his nephew did not have illicit relations with the daughter of Hanif. He said a person named Sohail had illicit relations with Hanif’s daughter and Aish was caught when delivering a letter from the former to the girl. Aish’s uncle said the accused held a grudge against the victim ever since and hatched a plot to kill him.
He said doctors of Jinnah Hospital and other private hospitals declared that the victim had been permanently blinded. He said the accused party is also issuing death threats to the victim’s family if they pursue the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2017.
An additional district and sessions judge ordered an investigation officer (IO) to conclude his probe into a case in which a suspect was accused of blinding and emasculating a ninth grade student. He fixed April 18 as the date for arguments over the pre-arrest bail application of the suspect.
Muhammad Hanif filed the application, claiming he had nothing to do with the case adding and was falsely implicated to humiliate him. He stated there was no source of information mentioned in the FIR.
In prior proceedings of the same case, the judge issued notices to the complainant and summoned the police record. Meanwhile, he awarded bail against the furnishing of bonds worth Rs.100,000.
According to the FIR got registered by one Muhammad Javed at Sundar police station under Section 324 of the PPC, the complainant’s son, Aish Muhammad, and his friend Waqar, were headed home on a motorbike after studies at a local academy. He added that was when four unidentified people intercepted them and started beating the two. The complainant added the assailants attacked Aish’s eyes with knives and damaged one of his testicles in the attack.
Talking to The Express Tribune, investigation officer Ghulam Mustafa stated the eyes of the victim were badly injured with knives, adding the complainant quoted doctors as saying the boy was permanently blinded. He said one testicle had to be removed as it was severely damaged.
To a query about the investigation, he said police had arrested Waqar and Ashfaq who were sent on judicial remand on April 11 by a judicial magistrate. He said they confiscated the knives from the possession of the suspects.
Other suspects, Amir, Shan and Azam, were also being investigated after the victim named them in his recorded statement before the police. The policeman added he did not see a big hand of these three in this case.
When asked the statements of the suspects, the IO said Waqar told the police that Aish Muhammad had illicit relations with daughter of Muhammad Hanif, the prime suspect. He added Hanif consequently ordered them to attack the victim on some agricultural land. Waqar confessed that the assailants attacked Aish with knives and also damaged a testicle.
He said the incident occurred on February 27 and the victim got recorded his statement on March 15.
Muhammad Sarwar, the uncle of victim Aish Muhammad, told The Express Tribune that his nephew did not have illicit relations with the daughter of Hanif. He said a person named Sohail had illicit relations with Hanif’s daughter and Aish was caught when delivering a letter from the former to the girl. Aish’s uncle said the accused held a grudge against the victim ever since and hatched a plot to kill him.
He said doctors of Jinnah Hospital and other private hospitals declared that the victim had been permanently blinded. He said the accused party is also issuing death threats to the victim’s family if they pursue the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2017.