Crimes against women: Woman raped for a month escapes

She has accused her ex-husband and three of his friends of rape

FAISALABAD: A woman who was allegedly raped by four men, including her former husband, for a month managed to escape and filed a complaint with the women’s police on Monday.

Police said the woman, a resident of Siddhupura, said that she was married to a man from the same locality but later divorced him because he would often beat her up.

“I then married another man from the same locality and I was happy with him…a month ago, my former husband and three of his friends abducted me from a market.”

She said they put her in a car and took her to a house where they detained her in a room.  There the four men beat her up and raped her several times during the month, she said.

A few days ago, they visited her while under the influence and raped her. “They later passed out and I ran away,” she said. The women’s police SHO they had registered a case against the men and were looking for them. “We will arrest them in two days,” she said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2015.