Woman accuses constable of rape
Contradicts her own version, police say as they register an FIR.
ISLAMABAD:
A woman, on Wednesday, accused a police constable and his five accomplices of keeping her in detention and raping her for four consecutive days. The incident took place at a house near Tarnol, in the outskirts of the city, she alleged.
Salma*, a resident of Sargodha and a mother of three, said that she was two-months pregnant. The police registered a case against Mansoor*, a constable of Tarnol police station, currently on leave in Lodhran, his hometown.
However, after initial investigations, it appeared that the woman was making up the story, as she could not substantiate her claims and changed her statements multiple times, the police said.
“However, we registered a case against the suspect, and sent the woman for medical tests. We will also obtain the DNA tests of the both to establish the facts,” said a police official.
Salma, accompanied by a lawyer from district courts, approached the police station on Wednesday, and narrated the incident to the police. She claimed to have arrived from Sargodha at Chungi No 26, near Tarnol on July 21 around 9pm. There, she met the constable, who took her to an unknown place, after she told him that she had come to see the Prime Minister (PM) to appeal for monetary help.
“The constable told me he lived in the same neighbourhood as the PM House, and took me with him,” she told the police.
Salma said the constable had locked her up in a room and beat her when she resisted. Later, he had brought five friends who got drunk and raped her.
On Tuesday morning, she claimed to have escaped from the room, while the constable and his accomplices were asleep. The woman told the police that she had minimum clothes on her body, when she arrived at the police station and the guards at the gate did not let her in.
From there, she went to the court and met the lawyer who was accompanying her to the district magistrate and the district judge. Both the judge and the magistrate did not direct the police to register an FIR on her complaint. However, they sought comments from the concerned Station House Officer. Failing to get an FIR registered immediately, the woman arrived at the police station accompanied by the lawyer and a few TV cameras.
The police said the woman, in her written statement, contradicted her own claims since the two guards she had alleged of not allowing her in said they had never seen her there. She also dodged police's questions about her family and on contacting them.
“She has not provided any contact number, either of her family or her husband. It appeared she had made up the whole story of her marriage and her pregnancy. We will be sure only after the medical report arrives,” said a police official investigating the case.
The woman, who claimed that she had come to Islamabad for the first time, not only knew the name of the constable but also told the police his belt and phone numbers.
Mansoor, the accused constable, said he knew the woman as she is a singer and was from a family of rag-pickers. The police said the constable maintained the woman used to frequent their checkpoint where he had seen her.
He denied all allegations of rape and said he was willing to face the charges leveled against him.
*Names changed to protect identity
A woman, on Wednesday, accused a police constable and his five accomplices of keeping her in detention and raping her for four consecutive days. The incident took place at a house near Tarnol, in the outskirts of the city, she alleged.
Salma*, a resident of Sargodha and a mother of three, said that she was two-months pregnant. The police registered a case against Mansoor*, a constable of Tarnol police station, currently on leave in Lodhran, his hometown.
However, after initial investigations, it appeared that the woman was making up the story, as she could not substantiate her claims and changed her statements multiple times, the police said.
“However, we registered a case against the suspect, and sent the woman for medical tests. We will also obtain the DNA tests of the both to establish the facts,” said a police official.
Salma, accompanied by a lawyer from district courts, approached the police station on Wednesday, and narrated the incident to the police. She claimed to have arrived from Sargodha at Chungi No 26, near Tarnol on July 21 around 9pm. There, she met the constable, who took her to an unknown place, after she told him that she had come to see the Prime Minister (PM) to appeal for monetary help.
“The constable told me he lived in the same neighbourhood as the PM House, and took me with him,” she told the police.
Salma said the constable had locked her up in a room and beat her when she resisted. Later, he had brought five friends who got drunk and raped her.
On Tuesday morning, she claimed to have escaped from the room, while the constable and his accomplices were asleep. The woman told the police that she had minimum clothes on her body, when she arrived at the police station and the guards at the gate did not let her in.
From there, she went to the court and met the lawyer who was accompanying her to the district magistrate and the district judge. Both the judge and the magistrate did not direct the police to register an FIR on her complaint. However, they sought comments from the concerned Station House Officer. Failing to get an FIR registered immediately, the woman arrived at the police station accompanied by the lawyer and a few TV cameras.
The police said the woman, in her written statement, contradicted her own claims since the two guards she had alleged of not allowing her in said they had never seen her there. She also dodged police's questions about her family and on contacting them.
“She has not provided any contact number, either of her family or her husband. It appeared she had made up the whole story of her marriage and her pregnancy. We will be sure only after the medical report arrives,” said a police official investigating the case.
The woman, who claimed that she had come to Islamabad for the first time, not only knew the name of the constable but also told the police his belt and phone numbers.
Mansoor, the accused constable, said he knew the woman as she is a singer and was from a family of rag-pickers. The police said the constable maintained the woman used to frequent their checkpoint where he had seen her.
He denied all allegations of rape and said he was willing to face the charges leveled against him.
*Names changed to protect identity