SIALKOT:
A woman tried to commit suicide in the district court after she was raped in a lawyer’s chambers on Wednesday.
According to police officials, Raipur resident Mehreen, 23, approached a district court on Thursday afternoon to file an application when the lawyer told her to wait upstairs in the room above his chambers. Mehreen was allegedly raped by local lawyer Ahmed Riaz in his chambers situated near the Civil Lines Police Station.
Eyewitnesses said that they saw Mehreen try to jump out of a second floor window at the lawyer’s chamber complex after she was allegedly raped. “She was saved by Rescue 1122 officials but she came very close to killing herself,” said an eyewitness, Rahat. Locals present in the courts said that a team of Rescue 1122 workers and others took Mehreen to the hospital where police ordered a medical examination to confirm whether or not she had been raped.
Mehreen told police officials on the scene that Riaz had told her to go and wait for him to file her complaint upstairs.
“He said that there were too many men downstairs and I could wait in private. One of his colleagues took me upstairs and then he came and raped me,” she said. Both accused fled the courts following the incident.
The district superintendent (DSP) City Circle Shoaib Cheema told reporters that a case had been registered against Riaz and his unidentified accomplice under Section 376 in Civil Lines Police Station.
“A police party has been formed to search for the accused and arrest them but we haven’t found them as yet,” he said. Cheema said that Mehreen had been sent to the hospital for a medical examination. “If the rape charges are proven true than the accused will be arrested and they will face the charges,” he added.
*The name of the victim, her family and the alleged rapist have been changed to protect their identity
Published in The Express Tribune, October 27th, 2011.
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Certainly there are not all people of the same category. They may not be all pious but there are some wrong doers who bring shame on the profession. These elements in all walks of life must be identified thoroughly to save the society from the prevailing evil where everybody has started feeling insecure.
the mullahs would ask for four witnesses;where would she get it?
I think it is highly insensitive and rude of the Express Tribune to put the word rape in quote marks, casting doubt on the victim. Of course one is innocent until proven guilty but it wouldve been better to write 'woman attempts suicide after alleged rape' rather than 'after "rape"' which implies she was lying.
Black Hearts In Black Coats Doing Dark Black Acts. Shame on Them.
After raping the country, the foot soldiers of the "Rule of Law" have started raping the daughters of the nation. Shame on such people.
Real face of Lawers !!!
Lawyers, they are above the law, the bar asscoiation will get him frees after a protest. Remember the Christian child housemaid killed in a lawyer house in Lahore. They got him freed. The protested against the judge who sentenced Qadri to death. These are the custodians of the Low. God save Pakistan.