BAHAWALPUR: An 18-year-old Hindu girl was allegedly abducted, gang-raped and murdered in Derawar area of Cholistan.

Dawn learnt that the incident took place between the night Oct 3 and 4 when the victim (K) mysteriously disappeared from her hut in the desert in the area of Qasimwala Bangla in the limits of the Derawar Police Station. The girl’s parents searched for her but could not trace her. After 24 hours, the family found her body in the nearby canal.

The girl’s father alleged that his daughter was gang-raped by four men. He identified the suspects and nominated three of them in the first information report (FIR) registered under sections of rape and murder with the Derawar Police Station.

He alleged the suspects had abducted, gang-raped and killed his daughter because he had stopped them from being around his hut. He said that out of vengeance, they abducted his daughter, gang-raped her and murdered her.

The police sent the victim’s body for postmortem.

Police claimed that all three suspects nominated in the FIR had been arrested while their further investigation was going on.

RAPE BID: Lodhran Saddar Police claim to have arrested a man who was attempting to rape a six-year-old girl at Chak M/97.

According to the FIR, registered on the complaint of child’s father Hafiz Amin, a prayer leader in a factory, the suspect Hassan led his daughter to a nearby store. On suspicion, he chased the suspect and overpowered him in the store when he attempted to rape her daughter.

Police arrested the suspect.

ACCIDENTS: A woman died while four other persons suffered serious injuries when the tractor-trolley they were travelling on overturned near Khuyan Road, Mehrabwala in Ahmedpur East.

According to Rescue 1122, the women were cotton-pickers. The deceased was identified as Nadia Bibi (25) while the injured were identified as Rukhsana, Haseena and Rubina and Haji Ghulam Abbas.

The accident happened when the tractor-trolley driver hit a mini-truck coming from the opposite direction in a bid to save the loader-rickshaw. The injured were shifted to THQ Hospital Ahmedpur East.

In another road accident, a man, identified as Noorul Hassan (35), was killed by a speeding car on 148-Murad Road near Dahranwala in Hasilpur tehsil.

The police arrested the car driver.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2023