TOBA TEK SINGH, March 18: A woman, who was allegedly gang-raped a few days ago, on Saturday denied any such incident before Gojra judicial magistrate Faiz Ahmad Ranjha. Belonging to Chak 248-GB, Maalri, the victim appeared before the judge and stated that she was neither abducted nor gang-raped and the news item published in a section of press was baseless.

Meanwhile, girl’s father Muhammad Ashfaq said his daughter was 17 years of age while in press her age was wrongly published as seven years. He said in fact there were two rival political groups in the village and as he was a poor barber, a rival group exploited him by slandering the girl.

DPO Akhtar Laleka told this correspondent that he had sent a team of senior police officers to the village and their report confirmed that the girl was not abducted or gang-raped.

RALLY DISALLOWED: Police stopped the National Workers Party, the Labour Party, the Bhatta Mazdoor Union and NGOs’ activists from taking out a rally here on Saturday on the completion of three years of the Iraq occupation.