SIALKOT: A gang has allegedly abducted a 15-year-old girl for the second time in the last five months — this time, according to the family, as a “punishment for not withdrawing the rape case”.

The girl is the daughter of a labourer who ekes out a living in Daska’s Siraanwali village.

According to the FIR (291/2016) lodged at the Satrah police station by the girl’s mother ‘R’, five people, armed to the teeth, stormed their house on the night of Aug 27 last and held them up. They brutally tortured the family and asked them to withdraw the abduction-cum-rape case.


Family says suspects asked for rape case withdrawal


The gang, said the FIR, once again abducted the girl and threatened the family that they would repeat the torment. The Satrah police had earlier registered a case under sections 365-B and 376 PPC against one of the suspects.

The woman said they were already scarred by the rape and police’s failure to arrest the perpetrators had emboldened them to repeat the crime. She demanded that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and senior police officers ensure arrest of the suspects and recovery of her daughter.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2016

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