GILGIT: An anti-terrorism court in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday sentenced to 33 years in jail a man for raping an eight-year-old girl.

The convict was also fined Rs250,000.After concluding the case proceedings, the judgment was passed by ATC judge Raja Shahbaz Khan.

As per the case, Ghulam Mohammad, resident of Mehdiabad area of Kharmang district, had registered an FIR with the local police station on January 8, this year, complaining that her eight-year-old granddaughter was locked by the convict, Hamid Hussain, in a room of a government primary school she was studying and was raped.

Later, the complainant said, they found the girl bleeding.

After registration of the FIR the police had arrested the culprit.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2017