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HYDERABAD, June 15: A Pasban leader, Mohammad Hussain Khan, has accused the Husri SHO of damaging incriminating evidence of the gang-rape case of a peasant girl.
He was speaking at a rally staged here on Monday to condemn the alleged gang-rape of a peasant girl, M, by her landlord and his friends in Husri.
The Pasban leader said that the poor girl was kept at the police station by the SHO for 13 hours and then taken to the civil hospital for medical checkup.
He alleged that the victim girl was also made to change her stained clothes to destroy the incriminating evidence.
Khan demanded that the victim girl should again be examined by an independent medical board and her soiled clothes should be recovered.
A large number of the Pasban activists participated in the demonstration held outside the press club.
ZEAL PAK: Half a dozen former employees of the Zeal Pak Cement Factory with their children observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday to protest against the alleged fraud of the factory management and union leaders.
Talking to newsmen, S.M. Iqbal and others said that their services were terminated in Jan 2000 under golden handshake scheme but they were still waiting for the payment.
They alleged that cheques issued to them were dishonoured by the bank and the quarters allotted to the workers as quid pro quo for the golden handshake amount were not property of the factory.
They said that they were neither paid gratuity nor provident fund which was their legal right.
They said that their children were starving for 31 months but the government was protecting the factory owner and the union leaders.
They appealed to the government to provide justice to them before they were forced to take the extreme step of committing suicide.
