Student raped by van driver, accomplice in Layyah

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LAYYAH: An intermediate student was allegedly raped by a van driver and his accomplice in the Fatehpur police jurisdiction.

The van driver routinely picked up a student ‘A’ from her home to drop her to college but she did not return. The perpetrators raped her and dropped her in front of a private clinic where she was administered treatment. A medico-legal report confirmed the rape.

On the report of her father, police registered a case 215/19 under section 376 II of PPC against the suspects.
DPO Attaur Rehman said police had arrested the suspects.

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2019

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Rashid

Apr 15, 2019 12:08pm

When is the Government and the justice system ( is there any? ) going to take this ever increasing menace of attacks on innocents seriously, and hand out exemplary sentences to the perpetrators ? We are fast becoming a laughing stock!

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aman

Apr 15, 2019 03:43pm

Every citizen needs to ponder what if it was their daughter? Rightly so, she is a daughter of every citizen and culprit must not escape. If this culprit escapes he will do again and justice demand us to rise up together against this menace so these culprits get the severest punishments possible for destroying a life of an innocent daughter of Pakistan!

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Mumtaz Ahmed Shah

Apr 16, 2019 01:52am

The perpetrators must be given rigorous punishment as deterrent to others.(Texas)

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