The suspects are pressuring the victim’s family to withdraw the case. PHOTO: FILE
A girl was gang raped on Friday by five men in Rodala area.
Police said Altaf and his four accomplices kidnapped a girl, *Zainab, a resident of Chak 355-GB, and raped her.
*Muhammad Aamir, a cousin of the girl, told the media on Saturday that Zainab was kidnapped and taken to a dera outside the village.
“They [the suspects] raped her… when she resisted they beat her up,” he said.
“They left her there and fled,” he added.
Altaf said he had filed a complaint with Rodala Road police but the suspects had not been arrested.
“They are influential people… and are pressuring us to withdraw the complaint,” he said. When contacted, Rodala Road SHO told The Express Tribune that the police had registered a complaint and were waiting for the medical-legal report.
The SHO said a police team had been constituted to arrest the suspects.
In another incident in Faisalabad, police said a girl was rescued by neighbours when her father tried to rape her at their house in Chak 133-RB on Friday.
Sahianwala SHO said the suspect fled the scene when the neighbours gathered outside the house to help the girl.
“The police are looking for the suspect… and have registered a case,” the SHO said.
*Names have been changed to protect identities
Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2013.
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Get four male witnesses or please suffer in silence.
Ironically. the case is not getting deserved attention and feel regretful about media and society we live in. where Hakimullah mehsud is a now being portrayed as hero and current media programs reflect like Pakistan lost Father of the Nation....!! The culture we been brought up, rape is considered more heinous crime than murder but our deaf feelings for the innocent make me believe that we lost conscience to live respectfully.
"the suspects had not been arrested."
and
“They are influential people… and are pressuring us to withdraw the complaint,”
It is always the same story and the rape contnues.
finally paki medias started reporting rape cases in pakistan.
Looks like even babies need to be in burkhas to save rhem from these kind of crimes in Pakistan.