KARACHI: Two personnel of the Police Qaumi Razakar (PQR) were arrested by the Korangi Industrial Area police over the allegation of rape, officials said on Friday.

Landhi SP Afnan Amin told Dawn that the police had apprehended the PQR personnel and registered an FIR against them for rape on the complaint of a girl. He added that they had given a letter to the girl and sent her for a medical examination at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and further legal action would be taken in the light of the doctors’ report.

Additional police surgeon Dr Kaleem Shaikh told Dawn that a woman medico-legal officer had examined the girl aged around 18 years.

The police surgeon said that the report had been reserved for the chemical examination.

The Korangi Industrial Area police officer said that an FIR (384/2016) had been registered against the PQR personnel under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The girl in her statement stated that she was travelling in a rickshaw on Thursday night when the Police Qaumi Razakars, whose uniform looked like that of regular police uniform, intercepted her rickshaw near the Qayyumabad roundabout at around 11pm.

The PQR personnel, according to the girl, took her to the riverbed in Qayyumabad where they allegedly subjected her to sexual assaults.

She informed the police personnel present at the Qayyumabad checkpoint about the incident, who detained the suspects.

Published in Dawn, April 23rd, 2016