Sexual harassment : Four suspects, including cop, arrested

CHARSADDA: Four people have been arrested by Prang police, including a police officer, after a first-year student pressed charges of sexual harassment against them. Officials of the Prang police station confirmed the arrests and presented the accused before a judicial magistrate who sent them into police custody for one day. Hassan Khan*, a first-year student, informed police that on Thursday he was on his way home when he was abducted by four unidentified men who sexually harassed him and then left him stranded.  After being informed of the incident, the police raided the accused’s houses on Thursday night and arrested them. One of the accused is an official of the Frontier Reserve Police from Peshawar. A police official said samples of medical tests of the boy have been sent to a laboratory and an investigation is under way.

*Name changed to protect identity

 Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2014.