HYDERABAD, July 17: The sixth extra-joint civil judge, Hyderabad, Ali Ahmed Jan, on Wednesday allowed a deaf and dumb teenaged girl, Ms ‘S’, to go with her parents after recording her statement ‘by way of demonstration’ in which she identified three of her rapists produced before the court.
The police have arrested the accused, Noor Muhammad Jamali, who claimed that the girl was his wife, Nangar, who said that she had agreed to his sex desire, and Saleem, who denied the rape allegation. Daraz Khan, yet another rape accused, is still at large.
The three accused have been remanded in police custody till July 21.
The parents of the girl had maintained that Ms ‘S’ had gone missing and a report had been lodged with the concerned police station.
In her statement on oath, the victim told the judge through different signs that some people had taken her away from his residence and made her to stay with some other people, having big moustaches and beards. She denied that such people had subjected her to criminal assault.
However, she pointed her finger at Jamali and said he approached these people and took her to Karachi where he raped her.
The girl said that she managed to flee (Jamali’s) house and a driver offered her ‘lift’. The driver, she added, along with Mohammed Saleem and Nangar Shidi, brought her to Hyderabad and then Shidi took her to his residence. The driver joined him later and both the men raped her, she said.
She informed the court that Shidi’s wife beat her up.
On her hue and cry, she said, a passing police mobile rescued her.
Denying her allegation, Jamali said that Ms ‘S’ was her wife and honour and had she not been his wife, he would never have turn up to be disgraced or punished. Saleem also denied the charge saying that she nodded only when the judge pointed at him for identification.
Threat: The threatening letter, sent by the so-called ‘colleague’ of Omer Sheikh, who has been awarded death sentence in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case, has failed to create panic.
The author of the letter had threatened the officials at the Central Prison here of dire consequences if any harm came to the four convicts.
The Assistant Jail Superintendent, Shahabuddin Siddiqui, told Dawn on Wednesday that the extraordinary security, provided to the prison and its officials at the time of the case hearings, was being maintained.
He said that no extra security measures had been taken after receipt of the threatening letter, sent by one, Changez Khan, claiming to be one of the Mujahideen who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
