DADU: A female police constable was subjected to rape by her male colleague who also filmed the episode and made the videos viral on social media in Hala town near Matiari a day before.

Hala police arrested the alleged rapist, constable Yousuf Bilal, after the victim filed an FIR against him under Sections 336, 337, 356b, 506 PPC on Friday.

The victim told local journalists that the constable had called him to a police official residence on the pretext of working on an inquiry against a certain suspect. He gave her a cup of tea mixed with some sedative drug, which made her fall unconscious and then he raped her and made videos of the episode, she said.

She said that her tormentor spread the videos on social media and was now trying to blackmail her.

Hyderabad range DIGP Syed Pir Mohammad Shah said that the alleged rapist would be punished according to law and speedy justice would be served to the victim.

He said that women police officials had been made duty officers and writing head constables at several police stations across the province for the first time in Sindh police’s history on the directives of Sindh IGP Ghulam Nabi Memon but such tragic incidents would prove highly discouraging for them.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2022