DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 3: The Border Military Police (BMP) have not registered the FIR in a rape case despite constant appeals by the victim and her family for the last 10 weeks.

According to details, farmer Nawab Khan’s daughter was on her way to fields when one Ramzan intercepted her, took her away and raped her at gunpoint in the limits of the BMP post, Fazla Kach, Tuman Bozdar on Dec 24, 2001. Two passers-by Gull Muhammad and Ramzan chased the culprit but failed to catch him.

The victim’s husband Nawaz tried to lodge FIR against the accused but the BMP post in charge Ahmad Khan refused to register it. Then he went to Resaldar Yaqoob Shah who ordered the in charge to submit a report about the incident within 14 days.

However, no report was submitted. Nawaz, then, presented his problem before political assistant-cum-commandant of BMP. The commandant also ordered for the registration of the case on Feb 15, 2002, but the case was not registered.

The prevailing situation, according to tribal norms, will lead to the murder of the culprit if the police did not register the case.