SIALKOT: A woman alleged on Tuesday police were reluctant to register a case against fi ve people who allegedly gang-raped her a week ago.

A resident of Gujjar Town, the 32-year-old alleged she was kidnapped and gang-raped by fi ve people, including the driver of a pick-up when she got on a van from Noorabad-Hajipura on Sept 25 to go to Jessarwala, Daska. The suspects took her to a kiln in Bheello Mahaar in the jurisdiction of Motra police and gangraped her.

She fl ed when the captors fell unconscious under the infl uence of booze. She remained admitted to hospital for her injuries.

Later, she went to the Motra police for a case but only to be sent to the Sialkot Sadar and Hajipura police stations.

She said after several visits to the three police stations for a week, she remained unable to get the case registered.

“Give me justice or death,” she appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. She is a mother of fi ve children.

She, through her lawyer, Mian Shahzad Khalid, has moved the court of District and Sessions Judge Shahid Rafi q for getting her case registered. Her petition will be taken up on Wednesday (today).

Police offi cials said they were waiting for an opinion of the aw department.

Published in Dawn, October 1st , 2014