Surviving monstrosity: Lahore rape victim gets back home
Lie detecting polygraph test was carried out on five suspects but none tested positive.
Lie detecting polygraph test was carried out on five suspects but none tested positive. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
Spending some 28 days in the Services Hospital and after undergoing five operations, a minor girl who had fallen prey to a rape was discharged from the hospital in Lahore.
MS Services hospital Dr Rehana told The Express Tribune that the girl was mentally and physically fit to leave the hospital for three days.
Police officials, on the other hand, only shifted the girl to her home after adequate security arrangements were completed. The girl was shifted to her house in tight security during early hours of the morning. Police personnel in plain clothes have also been deployed in the vicinity of the girl’s residence.
The father of the girl said his daughter was happy to be home again but is still afraid.
Addressing a press conference at his office on Wednesday, Investigation DIG Zulfiqar Hameed said lie detecting polygraph test was carried out on five suspects but none of them tested positive. He said the interrogation was carried out employing scientific methods and no third degree torture was used by the police.
To a question regarding the police’s next move, the DIG said that the police is working on the CCTV footages and will hopefully manage to apprehend the criminal involved soon.
Punjab IGP told reporters that two investigation teams - one under SP Investigations Civil lines division and one under SP CIA - had been formed to conduct an inquiry into the matter but in vain.
During the search operations, the police also detained hundreds of suspects but remained unable to trace the culprit(s) involved in the crime.
Civil lines SP Maroof Safdar Wahla confirmed that forensic evidence could not be preserved by the police on the first day. The evidence had been destroyed, since the police was informed about the case after victim’s clothes were taken away by the family and burned, he added.
A police official told The Express Tribune that during interrogations of the family, they had come to know that the clothes may have contained DNA samples of the culprit’s semen but were burned by the girl’s grandmother.
However, some part of the clothes that escaped burning, were sent to the forensic laboratory, where the samples could not be matched.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2013.
Spending some 28 days in the Services Hospital and after undergoing five operations, a minor girl who had fallen prey to a rape was discharged from the hospital in Lahore.
MS Services hospital Dr Rehana told The Express Tribune that the girl was mentally and physically fit to leave the hospital for three days.
Police officials, on the other hand, only shifted the girl to her home after adequate security arrangements were completed. The girl was shifted to her house in tight security during early hours of the morning. Police personnel in plain clothes have also been deployed in the vicinity of the girl’s residence.
The father of the girl said his daughter was happy to be home again but is still afraid.
Addressing a press conference at his office on Wednesday, Investigation DIG Zulfiqar Hameed said lie detecting polygraph test was carried out on five suspects but none of them tested positive. He said the interrogation was carried out employing scientific methods and no third degree torture was used by the police.
To a question regarding the police’s next move, the DIG said that the police is working on the CCTV footages and will hopefully manage to apprehend the criminal involved soon.
Punjab IGP told reporters that two investigation teams - one under SP Investigations Civil lines division and one under SP CIA - had been formed to conduct an inquiry into the matter but in vain.
During the search operations, the police also detained hundreds of suspects but remained unable to trace the culprit(s) involved in the crime.
Civil lines SP Maroof Safdar Wahla confirmed that forensic evidence could not be preserved by the police on the first day. The evidence had been destroyed, since the police was informed about the case after victim’s clothes were taken away by the family and burned, he added.
A police official told The Express Tribune that during interrogations of the family, they had come to know that the clothes may have contained DNA samples of the culprit’s semen but were burned by the girl’s grandmother.
However, some part of the clothes that escaped burning, were sent to the forensic laboratory, where the samples could not be matched.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2013.