DADU, June 22 The Johi police have booked the complainant of a case pertaining to gang-rape of a teenage girl and his five relatives in a case of theft of grain from the house of the brother of main arrested accused in the gang-rape case.

Mohammad Ibrahim Leghari, resident of Bachal Leghari village and brother of Hassan Leghari, the main accused in the gang-rape case, has lodged an FIR against the complainant of the gang-rape case and uncle of the victim girl, her brother, three cousins and another uncle. Mohammad Ibrahim alleged in the FIR that the accused had stolen 40 bags of wheat, 20 bags of paddy and some household items from his house.

The police were conducting raids to arrest the relatives of the girl.

The complainant in the gang-rape case said that eight accused were nominated in the FIR lodged by him. Three accused had been arrested after protests and on the directives of the Sindh chief minister and the chief Justice of Sindh High Court but the remaining five were still at large, he said.

He alleged that the police had registered a false case against them to force them to withdraw the gang-rape case.

The girl' cousin said that the police had registered a concocted case against them because they had refused to change their statements against Hassan Leghari.

Dadu DPO Ghazi Salahuddin said that the theft case was registered on court directive, and added that it would be properly investigated.

The teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped by eight people after being kidnapped from her house in Bachal Leghari village on May 6.

Rally condemns price hike

Activists of Awami Tehrik took out a rally from Ustad Bukhari College to the press club here on Tuesday in protest against water shortage, lawlessness and price hike.

Speaking on the occasion, AT general secretary Mohammad Khan Bhurgari said that if Kalabagh dam was constructed, millions of acres of land in Sindh would become barren.

Vice-president of Sindhiani Tehrik Husna Rahujo said that people were experiencing worst kind of law and order situation in the province while innocent people were being killed in targeted killings in Karachi. She said that people were feeling insecure at their homes.

AT leader Mumtaz Bhand said that due to prices hike, people were not able to feed their family and poverty has compelled a number of poor people to commit suicide.