Man booked on charges of raping daughter

Dipalpur police arrest suspect on complaint of wife

OKARA:

Police have arrested a man on charges of raping his 20-year-old daughter in Dipalpur.

According to local police officials, the wife of the suspect had reportedly made noise after seeing him assaulting their daughter, forcing him to flee from the spot.

The police registered a case against the suspect on the complaint of the girl's mother and arrested him.

Okara District Police Officer Furqan Bilal said he had received information that a rickshaw driver named Mian Khan had been caught red-handed by his wife while sexually assaulting his daughter in Fakir Shah Colony but had fled.

Dipalpur city police were ordered to take immediate legal action, after which they registered the case on the complaint of the mother of the victim and arrested the suspect.

The DPO told The Express Tribune that the complainant had alleged in the FIR that the suspect had been molesting her daughter for about a year but the victim had remained silent out of shame.

He said the police were conducting an investigation into the case on scientific lines to ascertain all facts.

The victim had been sent to hospital for medical examination and progress would be made in the investigation in the light of the report, the official added.

A team has been formed to investigate the case.

The police are reportedly questioning the complainant and other witnesses.

Dipalpur city police said the suspect was in their custody and the investigation was under way.

Rape, particularly committed by relatives, is unfortunately common within Punjab. In August 2017, a victim came forward alleging that she had been raped by her own father. According to the victim, the assaults had occurred since she was 13.

The victim was faced with family members who did not believe the allegations and death threats from the father whenever he was caught assaulting his daughter.

The victim’s mother reportedly caught the father red-handed when he was tried to force himself on her. The mother tried to stop the suspect, but he badly thrashed her and kept a knife on her neck, threatening to kill her and the victim.

In an effort to stop the assaults, the mother and her sons registered an FIR with the police. A DNA analysis found that the father had been committing the assaults, leading to his arrest.

In a separate incident in January of this year, a minor girl was allegedly sexually assaulted for five months in Tahir Kalan village on the outskirts of Okara. Police arrested the suspect, the complainant’s brother-in-law Riaz, on a complaint lodged by the victim’s father.

Reportedly, the 11-year-old victim was living with the suspect. The complainant told police that he got married for the second time in 2017 to Yasmeen and that he and his 11-year-old daughter were living with his in-laws.

He added that a few months later, his mother- in-law and brother-in-law, Riaz, kicked him out of the house. Meanwhile, the suspect Riaz started sexually assaulting his daughter in his absence, the complainant alleged.

Basirpur police arrested Riaz after performing a medical examination on the victim and registered a case against on charges of raping the minor. Police said they were investigating the matter further.