ISLAMABAD: A Chinese man was arrested on charge of raping a woman, police said on Friday.

Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the suspect’s house.

Station House Officer (SHO) of Kohsar police station Sub-Inspector (SI) Shabbir Tanoli said the police had received a call from the woman, who is an Afghan, after which a team, including policewomen, raided the house and found her in one of the bathrooms.

In response to the FIR, the suspect, who is in his 50s, was arrested and weapons recovered on the basis of information provided by the woman.

Both were later shifted to the police station where separate cases were registered against the Chinese man on the charges of rape and possessing illegal weapons, the SHO said, adding that the rape case was registered in response to a complaint lodged by the woman while the police were complainants in the weapons’ recovery case.

In the FIR, the woman said she resided in F-8/4 and had been working in the suspect’s office that dealt with import and export for the last two years. It further said that the woman had come over to the suspect’s house in F-7/1 to get her dues.

However, the suspect forcibly took her inside and raped her and later threatened her of dire consequences, the FIR quoted the woman as saying.

According to SI Tanoli, the suspect was produced in the court from where he was given into police custody on three-day physical remand.

He further said during interrogation and investigation, it was revealed that the suspect was involved in the export and import of medicine since 2019 and the Afghan woman had been working with him for the last two years.

The suspect wanted to marry her and had proposed to her many times but she kept refusing him on the ground that he was from a separate religion, SI Tanoli said.

The man had been bearing all her expense and was even ready to convert in order to marry her, the police official said, adding that before the incident, they had gone to a hotel and had dinner.

Later they returned to the man’s house where he again proposed to her but she turned him down, which infuriated the suspect who then raped her, Mr Tanoli added.

Published in Dawn, February 12th, 2022