Protective measures: Woman obtains bail in child rape case
An additional district and sessions judge granted interim bail to Rabia Bibi for Rs50,000 until October 23.
Rabia Bibi said in her bail petition that police officials had been threatening her and she feared that she would be implicated in the case, though she had nothing to do with it. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
A woman who lives in the same neighbourhood as a five-year-old girl raped in Mughalpura a month ago has obtained pre-arrest bail, saying she feared being falsely implicated in the high-profile case.
An additional district and sessions judge granted interim bail to Rabia Bibi for Rs50,000 until October 23.
The child victim was found bleeding and unconscious outside a hospital on September 13, a day after she had gone missing. Doctors reported that she had been raped multiple times.
Rabia Bibi said in her bail petition that police officials had been threatening her and she feared that she would be implicated in the case, though she had nothing to do with it.
The FIR of the case, registered on the complaint of the victim’s father, names no suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2013.
A woman who lives in the same neighbourhood as a five-year-old girl raped in Mughalpura a month ago has obtained pre-arrest bail, saying she feared being falsely implicated in the high-profile case.
An additional district and sessions judge granted interim bail to Rabia Bibi for Rs50,000 until October 23.
The child victim was found bleeding and unconscious outside a hospital on September 13, a day after she had gone missing. Doctors reported that she had been raped multiple times.
Rabia Bibi said in her bail petition that police officials had been threatening her and she feared that she would be implicated in the case, though she had nothing to do with it.
The FIR of the case, registered on the complaint of the victim’s father, names no suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2013.