Teenage Assault Case: K-P women lawmakers want high-level inquiry against SHO

Lawmakers from both sides of aisle file call-to-attention-notice in provincial assembly

PESHAWAR: Women lawmakers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have demanded an inquiry against police officials in Dera Ismail Khan for their lack of action as a teenaged girl was stripped naked and paraded.

The lawmakers in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) assembly from both the government and opposition benches submitted a joint call-to-attention notice in the assembly secretariat on Thursday in which they demanded that the home ministry and the inspector general of K-P Police order a high-level inquiry against the station house officer of the Chodhawan police station in Tehsil Daraban and take action against the culprits involved.

The notice had been signed by two lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) including Ayesha Naeem and Zareen Zia. It also carried signatures from Qaumi Watan Party’s Meraj Humayun, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Amina Sardar and Jamat-e-Islami’s (JI) Rashda Riffat.

They have asked the assembly to look into the teenage girl assault case which occurred in Garha Matt area of Daraban.

The teenaged girl was fetching water from a well when she was followed and picked by a few local influentials who stripped her naked and dragged her on the road in the Garha Matt area a few
weeks ago.

When the girl’s family went to the station to file a complaint against the culprits, the SHO allegedly backed the culprits and registered an FIR against the girl’s family.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2017.