Cricketer Yasir Shah booked in sexual assault case

According to complainant, the player said he liked young girls

ISLAMABAD:

A stunning development on Monday revealed that Test cricketer Yasir Shah had been booked in a case pertaining to the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

A first information report (FIR) was registered on the complaint of the victim’s aunt at Shalimar Police Station, Islamabad.

According to the FIR, the 14-year-old girl’s aunt told the police that she went to meet Shah, who was her acquaintance, along with her niece in Lahore. She said two or three months after returning, her niece seemed “unwell and disturbed”.

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The girl told her aunt that Shah’s friend Farhan took her mobile number. The victim said that after being in contact on phone with Farhan for a few days she became friends with him. She said Farhan also established her contact with Shah on WhatsApp.

The FIR noted that on her return from tuition on August 14, Farhan took the 14-year-old to an apartment in F-11 area and sexually assaulted her on gun point and filmed her.

It was further stated that on offering resistance, Farhan threatened to kill the girl and make the video viral in case she disclosed the details to others. Farhan called the victim again at the apartment and subjected her to sexual assault.

The complainant said Shah also threatened her niece saying that he was an international cricketer and would implicate her in a case if she lodged a complaint.

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The FIR stated that Farhan would make the victim talk with Shah on phone and forced her to establish a relationship with the cricketer.

It was further said that when the girl told Shah about lodging a complaint with police, the cricketer proposed getting the teenager married off to Farhan

"When I threatened to go to the police, Yasir said let bygones be bygones and said he would buy the girl a flat and bear her expenses till she turned 18 if I got her married to Farhan," the complainant said.

Quoting Shah, the victim’s aunt said he liked young girls.