RAWALPINDI: A woman, who was going to the railway station to catch a train to visit the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in

Sindh, was allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted by a rickshaw driver and two other men on Thursday night.

The incident occurred in the Amanpura locality of the city where the woman was also robbed of a mobile phone and Rs8,000.

The police said the divorced woman, who lived with her mother, left the house after leaving her six-month-old baby at home.

In her complaint to the police, the victim claimed that soon after she hired a rickshaw for the railway station, the driver took her to the close end of a street and raped her.

Later, two other men joined him and also sexually assaulted the woman besides snatching Rs8,000 and a mobile phone from her.

Mohammad Iqbal, the police sub-inspector who is leading the investigation into the case, told Dawn that the woman was detained in the rickshaw by the driver who along with two other accomplices sexually assaulted her.

He said after the case was registered with the Waris Khan police, two suspects were taken into custody. But the complaint said only one of the arrested men was involved in raping her. The police said they were trying to arrest the other two accused.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2015

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