DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three of the eight suspects arrested in a girl’s stripping case have confessed to the crime, saying they paraded the girl in their village to take revenge on her brother for dishonouring their women.

The eight were produced in the court of the Daraban judicial magistrate on Monday where three of them — Shahjehan, Gulestan and Ramazan — recorded their confessional statements.

They were arrested on Oct 27 after the girl lodged an FIR with the Daraban police, accusing them of stripping her and parading her in the streets of Garahmat village of Dera Ismail Khan.

They were produced in the court on the completion of their two-day remand. During the proceedings, they told the court that Sajid, a brother of the girl, used to tease and dishonour their women. They said they had resolved the issue through a jirga two years ago, but claimed that Sajid did not desist.

They said they took up the matter with the family elders and decided that they would take revenge on Sajid by dishonouring his sister.

They said that on Oct 27 they intercepted the girl at gunpoint while she was fetching water from a pond along with her two cousins and disrobed her and forced her to run in the area.

After their confessional statements, the court sent all the suspects to jail on a 14-day remand.

Published in Dawn, November 7th, 2017