‘Gang-rape’ victim

Published February 3, 2014

BADIN: Relatives of a victim of alleged gang-rape on Sunday threatened to resort to self-immolation if justice was not restored to them.

Some close relatives of the 15-year-old victim led by her brother, Soomar Ansari, told the media that a doctor and his two friends living in the same neighbourhood subjected her to gang-rape on early Thursday morning. Later, the girl recorded her statement saying that she had been gang-raped by three persons at the residence of the doctor.

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