TOBA TEK SINGH: Two children are violently attacked by an unidentified woman in their home but their family is reluctant to get the issue probed by police for they regard it an act of Jinns.

Chuttiana Station House Officer (SHO) Younis Gujjar said they learned from Fauzia Bibi, of Chak 333-GB, that she was standing alone outside her house on August 13 when a woman arrived there and asked for water. There is no house adjacent to her house.

She let the woman into her house as courtesy and went to kitchen to bring water. The woman followed her and made her unconscious. After a while, when she regained conscious, Fauzia found herself tied with a charpoy and her two children - Amina (5) and Abdullah (4) - were crying.

The woman was attacking the children with a blade. She left injury marks on their lower abdomen. Fauzia says when she tried to stand up and raised alarm, the woman fled.

Children were shifted to the Pirmahal Tehsil Headquarters hospital for first aid by some labourers working in nearby fields. They were discharged after treatment.

Fauzia’s husband Afzal told reporters that he learned about the attack when he returned home from work.

He said police suspected the attack an act by a burglar but nothing had been stolen from the house. He said that he had contacted spiritual leader Pir Atta Muhammad Sialvi in the presence of policemen who said that it was the act of Jinns and he had once treated the house when their clothes would catch a fire mysteriously.

The labourers who were at work near the house said they had not seen any woman entering or leaving the house.

Afzal said he believed in pir’s point of view so he did not lodge a first information report into the incident.

SHO Younis Gujjar said Afzal or his wife had not given any application for the case, so the matter would not be probed.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2016