Teenager’s rapist gets life term

A fine of Rs500,000 has also been imposed on the convict

THEKRI WALA:

The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Rana Sohail Tariq, sentenced a man, Sultan, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on him.

Sultan had been accused of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter.

Nasreen Bibi, a resident of the Jangal Singh area of D-Type Colony, had filed a case with D-Type Colony Police Station in 2019, stating that her husband, Sultan, had raped his teenage stepdaughter, who also happened to be a differently-abled person. A case had been registered against the accused by the D-Type Colony Police, and the case was later sent to the court.

Last week in Khurrianwala, a woman had lodged a complaint with the police in which she alleged that her husband had sexually abused her 11-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.

According to police, the complainant, Nusrat Parveen, stated in her case that her husband, Sajjad Ahmed, had sexually abused his stepdaughter.

She alleged that Sajjad would often secretly mix their food with some sleeping pills that made them fall asleep.

Nusrat Parveen said that when she woke up at 11pm on May 15 to have some water she saw her husband had been sexually assaulting his stepdaughter. The complainant said that she screamed at the top of her voice which alerted the neighbours who gathered in her house to catch Sajjad, but before they could do so the suspect escaped.

In August last year, a man had been booked for sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter for three years in the Defence A area of the provincial capital. The arrested suspect had been identified as Nadeem Chaudhry. Police had said that the man had contracted a marriage with a widow a few years back, who had had a daughter from her first husband.

The suspect had been sexually assaulting the teenage girl for three years and threatened her with dire consequences if the victim spoke to anyone about the matter.

When the girl’s mother learnt about the gruesome act of her husband, she filed for divorce. However, the suspect started hurling death threats at his wife and the victim.

He again sexually assaulted the victim and also filmed the act on his cell phone to intimidate the victim and her mother. Police had arrested the suspect and registered a case against him. Sexual offences against women are rampant in society. In the month of August last year, a large number of sexual harassment cases were reported in the provincial capital.

The then IGP, taking notice of these incidents, had issued orders for setting up “Anti-Women Harassment and Violence Cells” to curb crimes against women across the province. The Anti-Women Harassment and Violence Cells were to ensure the prevention of crimes against women and the investigation of cases on merit.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2022.