RAWALPINDI: Police have registered a case against a man who allegedly raped a woman multiple times and escaped when she became pregnant.

The rape victim, a resident of Faisalabad, lodged an FIR with the police saying that about one-and-a-half years ago, she got married to her cousin, but after a year, he died.

She said after her husband’s death, she came to Gujar Khan with her parents and started working as a waiter in a hotel. She said there she met the suspect, a resident of Jhelum, who started keeping in touch with her on WhatsApp and mobile phone. After some time, they developed illicit relations due to which she became pregnant.

She claimed that when she informed the suspect that she was pregnant, he told her that they would get married.

The suspect asked her to come to Rawalpindi where they would get married, the woman said, adding that on Sunday, she reached the city and the suspect took her to an apartment near ‘CAR chowk’ where he raped her the whole night. He then left her in the apartment and escaped.

The victim further said in the FIR that after waiting for some time she came downstairs and called the emergency police 15. Later, she lodged an FIR with the police against the suspect who was yet to be arrested.

Meanwhile, two women swindlers working as housemaids stole gold jewellery worth Rs1.5 million in the limits of Saddar Bairooni police.

Shumayl Khan, a resident of Adiala Road, lodged a complaint with the police saying that he had employed two women as housemaids who came to clean his house on Friday and Saturday.

He said when the two women did not come on Monday, he got suspicious and found the gold jewellery weighing 12 tolas, necklace, gold rings and some silver jewellery stolen. The value of the stolen jewellery was worth Rs1.5 million.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2024