Man allegedly rapes ex-wife over ‘divorce’ in Dijkot

Victim was pregnant when suspects intoxicated, tortured her

DIJKOT:

A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by her ex-husband, along with his friends in Dijkot.

The suspect kidnapped his ex-wife on gun point from her from home and raped her over taking divorce from court.

Police have registered a case under Section 376(Punishment for rape) Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against five suspects and started raids to arrest them.

An action has been taken in the case filed by daughter of Hussain, a resident of Jalvi Market that she was married to Ali Raza, a resident of Khan Model Colony, Dhadiwala.

The victim said, “I was fed up with domestic disputes and filed for divorce through court on April 13 and got separated from my spouse forever. I was pregnant when I left him and started living in my parent's house. Ali Raza, my ex-husband, entered my parents' house at 9:00 pm on July 5, armed with a weapon and forced me into a car and took me to a secluded place.”

The suspects including Ali Raza and his accomplices then intoxicated the victim. “When I resisted, I was tortured in the condition of pregnancy,” the victim added.

Incidents of murder involving marital disputes were not uncommon in the province.

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Earlier this year in April, A man killed his ex-wife to death who took divorce from him while two unidentified suspects tortured and stabbed two people to death in the district. Police handed over the woman’s to her heirs and started searching for the heirs of two bodies.

According to the police report, a man allegedly shot dead his ex-wife over the resentment of his divorce on Wednesday. 38-year-old Noorin Kausar, a resident of Millat Town, used to quarrel with her husband Sajid Khan on a daily basis on which she took divorce from the court.

As a result, her ex-husband Sajid Khan, along with his partner Iftikhar Ahmed, went to her house where he shot her in the head and fled.

Millat Town Police reached the spot, took the body of the deceased in their possession and handed it over to her heirs after postmortem.

Police have registered a case against the two named suspects on the statement of the deceased’s son, Arsalan Khan.

In another incident in March, a man allegedly shot dead his ex-wife's brother over the resentment of his divorce.

Police registered a case against the suspect under murder provisions and started raids to find him. According to the police report, Amna Bibi, the sister of 48-year-old Azizur Rehman, son of Abdul Rehman and a resident of Mohalla Khalidabad, Factory Area, was married to Ariful Rafiq, a resident of Gulfishan Town, Lahore.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 9^th, 2021.