Remanded : Two alleged rapists arrested in Gilgit

GILGIT:

A court has remanded into police custody two of the three men who allegedly gang raped a woman.

An investigator told The Express Tribune on Thursday, Zulfiqar and Asif were produced in a civil court by the police. During the hearing, the court handed them to the police on 20-day remand.

“They will be interrogated for their involvement in the crime,” the investigator added.

According to details, three men, two of them brothers, allegedly gang raped a woman after abducting her from her house in Gilgit town on July 26.

The woman had filed a complaint with Jutial police station on July 29, saying she was raped by Zulfiqar, Asif and Adnan. The report stated Adnan had called the woman, saying he wanted to meet her. A few hours later, he arrived at her doorstep and knocked on the door. When the woman opened the door, three men pulled her out of her house and abducted her. The victim, who hails from Gojal Valley, said the men also made a video of her and threatened to upload it on social media if she filed a complaint against them.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 14^th, 2015.