Teen abducted, abused and now threatened
The family of a teenaged girl, who had been abducted and raped, said on Friday that they are facing threats from the suspects to withdraw their case.
The police, meanwhile, have yet to apprehend the culprits, noting that they are waiting on results of tests to proceed further.
The girl, 17-year-old KS* told the Naseerabad police in Rawalpindi that she was visiting her aunt in the Masriyal area of the city. She had stepped out to pick up some groceries along with her eight-year-old cousin. While going to the shop, a car stopped near her and some men got off who knocked her unconscious and abducted her.
When she came to, she found her hands tied and in the Gujjar Khan area along with two men Fayyaz Tauqeer and Shahid. Tauqeer then beat her and then drugged her. Later, she was taken to Islamabad where KS claimed she was forced to sign a marriage certificate by her captors who threatened to post her compromising pictures online.
KS claimed that due to the severe torture, she had suffered injuries to her hands and ears.
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However, her father managed to reach her. Her captors allowed her to leave but not before obtaining her signature on a blank sheet of paper and with the threat of not reporting the incident.
Her father took her to the police who did not immediately record her statement. When contacted, the girl's father SZ* told The Express Tribune that the suspects are still at large and that they threatening his family to withdraw the case.
The investigating officer of the case, Naseerabad police stations’ Saifullah, said that they are still probing the matter. He added that after completing a medical exam of the girl, DNA samples have been dispatched to the forensic laboratory.
*Name withheld to protect identity
Published in The Express Tribune, August 8th, 2020.