DADU, April 15: A teenaged girl from the Chhapar Khan Jamali village of Johi taluka, Benazir Jamali, has alleged that 10 people sexually assaulted her in a house of an influential person in Bhan Saeedabad town, where she had been kept for three months.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on Thursday, the girl, accompanied by Tando Raheem Khan UC Nazim Muhammad Aslam Jamali and her brother Mumtaz Jamali, said that on the first night of her marriage with Muhammad Sharif Jamali three months ago, armed men, identified as Lal Bux, Ameero Jamali and Muhammad Yousuf Jamali, kidnapped her from her husband's house and lodged her in a building of Lal Bux Jamali in Bhan Saeedabad town. There, she alleged, they and seven other people had sexually assaulted her. She said she had been tortured every night.

According to the victim, on Wednesday night three persons attempted to shift her to another place near Bhan Saeedabad town, but she offered resistance. Some passers-by saw the three men throwing her into a well. They rescued her, and with the help of some notables, she approached the UC nazim for shelter and help.

The girl said that the nazim had helped her and informed her brother about her. She further said that three other women had been kept in chains at the same place. She appealed to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, NGOs and social workers to help her.

Her brother, Mumtaz, said they would be killed if shelter was not provided to his sister and family. He alleged that earlier the accused had also kidnapped his wife and had threatened that she would be killed if he informed any person about it.