HYDERABAD, Nov 14: Leaders of the Women Action Forum and two NGOs have demanded that a teenage girl allegedly subjected to sexual assault and currently under treatment at People's Medical College Hospital in Nawabshah be provided treatment by the government and the case should be properly investigated because police are playing a partisan role.

Addressing a press conference at the press club, Ms Amar Sindhu of the WAF, Shakoor Abbasi of Citizens Action Committee and Ghaffar Malik of Sindh Development Society said that the girl was kidnapped from her house on October 26 by 12 men who criminally assaulted her.

She was recovered by police two days later.

Ms Sindhu said that the girl in her statement, recorded in a Naushahro Feroze court, had identified six of the accused. She alleged that the accused were influential people, therefore, doctors issued an incorrect medical certificate to spoil the case. She demanded proper investigation by an honest police officer.

She said that only two accused had been arrested so far and the parents of the girl were being harassed and asked to withdraw the case. She said that the doctors who had issued the wrong medical certificate be dealt with according to law and a medical board should properly examine the girl.

She appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan to take notice of the case and urged the IGP Sindh to order an impartial investigation.

She also called upon the Sindh chief minister, home minister and minister for women development to ensure justice in the case.

The parents of the girl who were also present at the press conference, alleged that the EDO health of Naushahro Feroze was supporting the accused. Our Khairpur correspondent adds:

A young girl who was allegedly subjected to criminal assault by lecturer of her college, has said that the accused is threatening her and her family and putting pressure on them to withdraw the case.

Talking to reporters in Khuhra on Sunday, she said that social and political activists had visited her after the incident but none of them offered help to her to pursue the case.