Man ‘invites’ friends to gang-rape wife

Victim tells police her husband conspired to have her dishonoured by five men

CHAK JHUMRA:

A man allegedly allowed his “friends” to gang-rape his wife.

The victim, a resident of Green Town, told the police that she married one Ali Raza, a resident of Chak No. 189 RB, Rasoolpur Gaidri, in November 2021.

The victim said in her statement before the police that her husband had tricked her into marrying him. She said that Ali Raza had already been married before he married her, but he hid his first marriage from his second wife.

The victim told the police that her husband behaved with her nicely in the initial days of their marriage, but later on he started brooding over a crisis which he attributed to a bad financial situation.

And then the accused began showing his true colours and prodded the victim to get into doing dirty things, said the victim.

And then it happened.

The victim alleged that her husband Ali Raza took her out on March 28 at 11 pm telling her that he wanted to show her the crops. That was a ruse.

“When my husband returned to Dera, he told me that some of his friends were coming to the Dera,” said the victim.

She said that her husband’s mentioning of his friends coming to the Dera had alarmed her, and she asked the accused to drop her home because she didn’t want to see his friends.

The accused was not going to do his wife’s bidding because he had planned something evil. He became violent and started slapping his wife.

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The complainant said that she discovered that five men, including Shabbir, Arqam, Iftikhar and two others, had already been present in one of the rooms of the Dera.

“They came out and forcibly picked me up and took me to a room where they gang-raped me at gunpoint and later left me unconscious at the bypass and fled,” said the accused.

Jhumra police registered a case under the provisions of 376 TPP and started raids to arrest the accused.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Usman, a resident of 220 GB, allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl while she had been sleeping in a room of his house.

After the medical examination, the police registered a case against the accused under the provisions of 376 TPP.

A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in Khurrianwala in December last year on pretext of getting her medicine from a medical store.

The complainant had told police that she went to the Allied Hospital to buy medicine with her 22-year-old daughter.

She told police that Nabil Ahmed came to her and said he would bring her medicine from a medical store. She sent her young daughter with the suspect who took her to a secluded place and allegedly raped her.

The complainant had further said the suspect left her at the main gate of the Allied Hospital three hours later and fled.

Police registered a case against suspect Nabil Ahmed under Sections 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) after an inquiry.

Cases where women are sexually assaulted on pretext of help and fake promises are not uncommon in the district.

On September 5 last year, a woman had been sexually assaulted on a pretext of promise of marriage and dinner.

Reportedly, the suspect identified as Fahad Arshad, a resident of Sadhupura, along with his accomplice called his girlfriend to a hotel on the pretext of having dinner.

When the victim reached the hotel near Lorry Ada, the suspect Fahad took her to a room he had booked where he allegedly sexually harassed her.

When the victim resisted, Fahad allegedly threatened to kill her and sexually assaulted her. He later dropped her home.

The victim told police that the accomplice identified as constable Ghufran of Chowki Lorry Ada had also threatened the victim to remain silent over the rape incident.

Civil Lines police arrested Ghufran, Fahad and the hotel manager Tanveer Ahmed.

A case had been registered against the three suspects under Section 376 of the PPC and further investigation was underway. Meanwhile, the city police officer suspended the constable who was allegedly involved in the rape incident.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st, 2022.