SUKKUR, Aug 22: On the orders of the provincial chief minister and home minister, AIG of Sukkur range Rahoo Khan Brohi has constituted a seven-member committee to investigate into the alleged rape of a school girl by four men.
The committee comprises DPO Nisar Channa, DSP Jabbar Bijarani, DSP Shamim Ahmed, DSP Liaqat Abbasi, B-section SHO Qurban Pathan, C-section SHO (investigation) Sarfaraz Mangi and SHO (operation) Hafeez Mashori. It will submit its report to the government within seven days.
Saima Abro, 11, a student of class-VII at the Government Girls' Secondary School, Old Sukkur, was allegedly criminally assaulted by the four men on Aug 12 in the house of one Gulsher Khoso, who had been arrested.
The case became complicated after a report by a team of lady doctors - Dr Kousar, Dr Nuzhat, Dr Hira and Dr Kavita - said that the girl had not been criminally assaulted.
The father of the girl, Rajab Abro, refused to accept the report, alleging that the Medical Superintendent of the Sukkur Civil Hospital Khalid Shaikh, under influence of some influential people, had forced the lady doctors to submit a negative report. He demanded that her daughter should be checked by doctors in Larkana or Karachi.
He said that recently two armed men had visited him in the hospital and asked him to withdraw the case and shift the girl from the hospital, otherwise, he would face dire consequences.
Mr Abro has lodged an FIR (48/2004) under section 10, 13, 14, and 16 of the Hudood Ordinance at the C-section police station, Sukkur, against six persons including Gulsher Khoso.
According to him, on Aug 12, a woman teacher of the Government Girls' Secondary School, Old Sukkur, had taken Saima for rehearsal of a tableau, which she would have performed at an Independence Day function.
But instead of taking the girl to the Jinnah Municipal Stadium, where rehearsals had been taking place, the teacher took her to the house of Gulsher Khoso in Bhosa Lane and asked her to perform dances.
Then Robina left the house, leaving the girl with six persons who gave her a cold drink which contained tranquillizer. Later, four men criminally assaulted her and after eight hours she was left at the door of her house in a semi-unconscious condition by an unidentified man.
Her father tried to lodge an FIR but the police refused to register the case. After a couple of protest demonstrations held by concerned citizens and political activists, police registered the FIR on August 15.
The EDO, education, Sukkur, Jiand Ali Mahar, has suspended the teacher. However, the head mistress of the school, Ashraf Shaikh, denied the charges levelled against the teacher and said that on August 12 she had remained in the school.
