Still unidentified: Rickshaw driver booked in 15-year-old's rape case
Additional IG told to submit findings of the incident.
Additional IG told to submit findings of the incident. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
In an abduction and rape case of a 15-year-old girl, Z*, an unidentified rickshaw driver was nominated as the suspect in the FIR registered at the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan police station on Saturday.
On Friday evening, Z was found unconscious near a shopping centre in Phase I of Defence Housing Authority. She was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where she alleged that she was abducted by a rickshaw driver who was supposed to take her to North Karachi from her college in Sakhi Hasan on Friday afternoon.
Until the filing of the report, the girl had yet to record her statement with the police. However, SHO Tariq Mehmood said that a kidnapping and rape case had already been filed at the police station against the rickshaw driver on statement of the girl to her family. "We are working on the case and we will inform the media about our investigations soon," he said.
Meanwhile, IGP Shahid Nadeem Baloch issued directives to the additional IG to submit findings of the incident and ordered the police to arrest the culprits.
An official of the JPMC sharing the medico-legal report of the girl confirmed that she was raped. "She was very drowsy when she was brought to the hospital and we believe she was induced with some poisonous intake."
The official further said her family took the girl away when she was admitted to the hospital's poisoning control centre but was later brought back because of her drowsy state. However, the family took her back again late at night. "It is likely that because of the media personnel and the police officials present at the hospital, the family was unwilling to leave her at the hospital."
The stomach of the girl had been cleaned of any poisonous substance and her blood samples had been sent for DNA testing, the official added.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2013.
In an abduction and rape case of a 15-year-old girl, Z*, an unidentified rickshaw driver was nominated as the suspect in the FIR registered at the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan police station on Saturday.
On Friday evening, Z was found unconscious near a shopping centre in Phase I of Defence Housing Authority. She was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where she alleged that she was abducted by a rickshaw driver who was supposed to take her to North Karachi from her college in Sakhi Hasan on Friday afternoon.
Until the filing of the report, the girl had yet to record her statement with the police. However, SHO Tariq Mehmood said that a kidnapping and rape case had already been filed at the police station against the rickshaw driver on statement of the girl to her family. "We are working on the case and we will inform the media about our investigations soon," he said.
Meanwhile, IGP Shahid Nadeem Baloch issued directives to the additional IG to submit findings of the incident and ordered the police to arrest the culprits.
An official of the JPMC sharing the medico-legal report of the girl confirmed that she was raped. "She was very drowsy when she was brought to the hospital and we believe she was induced with some poisonous intake."
The official further said her family took the girl away when she was admitted to the hospital's poisoning control centre but was later brought back because of her drowsy state. However, the family took her back again late at night. "It is likely that because of the media personnel and the police officials present at the hospital, the family was unwilling to leave her at the hospital."
The stomach of the girl had been cleaned of any poisonous substance and her blood samples had been sent for DNA testing, the official added.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2013.