PESHAWAR, July 29: An eight-year-old girl belonging to the Nowshera district has accused her father, Jamal Shah, of molesting her.

A student of class III, the girl told this reporter that she had been assaulted almost a month ago in front of her mother. “I want my father to be hanged,” she demanded.

The girl’s mother has called upon President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to order an inquiry into the incident and ensure justice and protection to her children.

“I want the police to arrest my husband for abusing our daughter. I want protection for my daughter as my husband has threatened to kill her,” the woman said, complaining that the Nowshera police had not registered the FIR against her ‘influential’ husband.

She also accused Jamal Shah, son of Syed Ghani Shah and a resident of Taru Jabba in Nowshera, of forcing her into prostitution. She said when she refused, he tortured her.

She also alleged that her husband had got her and her three brothers implicated in a concocted case and said she had to spend a fortnight behind bars while her brothers were in police custody for almost a month.

Noor Alam Khan, advocate for the girl, said: “An application has been submitted to the district and sessions judge, Nowshera, under section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code to seek justice for the girl.”