HARIPUR: The police have arrested a man for allegedly assaulting his daughter and keeping her locked in a room for over a month in a remote village here.

Saddar police quoted the complainant, 21, a resident of Simlan Negar village, as saying that about a month ago she was sleeping when her father entered her bedroom early in the morning and raped her.

“I implored him not to destroy the sanctity of the relation between a daughter and father, but he continued saying that he was taking revenge from me for allegedly helping in elopement of my elder sister,” she told the police, saying that responding to her frantic calls for help her mother entered the room and tried to save her.

However, she said her father got further infuriated and dragged her to another room and locked her there.

The complainant said she spent over a month incommunicado in the room. She said she also requested her two brothers to extend her help in reaching the police station, but they also forced her to keep silent as the matter would bring bad name to their family.

However, on Saturday she managed to escape and reached the police station as her father forgot to padlock the door.

The police registered a criminal case under sections 376, 342 and 506/34 against the suspect and arrested him.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2022