Heinous crime: ‘Raped’ minor critical

FAISALABAD: An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in Dijkot on Monday. Police said Meraj Din, a resident of Chak 253-RB, abducted the girl and took her to the nearby fields, where her raped her. Ramzan Ali, father of the girl, told reporters that his daughter, a grade four student, was returning from school when the accused kidnapped her.“The accused carried the girl to a sugarcane field and raped her,” he said. He said that the girl was taken to a hospital, where her condition was stated to be critical. The Dijkot SHO said that police had registered a case.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 16^th, 2014.