LAHORE: The AGHS Legal Aid Cell is contesting the pre-arrest bail granted by a court to two suspects, sons of an influential businessman, in the rape-cum-murder case of a 21-year-od woman who worked as a maid at their (suspects’) house.

According to Advocate Shabir Hussein, who will be contesting the case, the victim ‘S’ who belonged to Chichawatni tehsil of Sahiwal district took employment at the house of the businessman at the end of 2017.

On March 4, 2018, her parents received a phone call from one of the suspects who told them that their daughter had committed suicide so they should come to collect her body.

The parents on their arrival at the businessman’s house found their daughter body on a sofa in one of the rooms on the upper floor, with a bullet wound on her right temple. The family agreed not to make it a police case.

However, the postmortem examination revealed that it a murder case and the victim was also raped.

After this revelation, the parents filed an FIR on March 5, 2018 with Sundar police station.

On March 6th the suspects secured a pre-arrest bail from a court.

Iqra, 12, another domestic servant working at the house in her first statement to police said the victim had shot herself accidentally, while in her second statement she claimed that she (Iqra) shot her accidentally during a scuffle. However, in her statement before the magistrate, Iqra finally confessed to being under duress while recording her previous statements, and alleged that one of the suspects ‘H’ had shot the victim.

The AGHS Legal Aid Cell will contest the the pre-arrest bail on the hearing fixed for August 20.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2018