PESHAWAR, May 28: The Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan on Monday summoned the results of polygraph tests of a female victim and all the accused persons in an alleged gang rape case.

The chief justice, while heading a single bench, ordered that the investigation officer in the case, SSP Attiqullah Wazir, should produce the results of the tests conducted on the order of the court.

The bench was hearing bail petitions of six accused persons in the case including an army man, Naseebullah, three policemen Hakeem Khan, Mohsin Shah and Amir Khan, and two other suspects Qamar Ali and Alam Khan.

The bench had directed the investigation officer last month to conduct the polygraph tests of the alleged rape victim and around a dozen suspects in the case. The DNA tests of all the accused persons had already been declared negative as none of them matched with that of a baby girl born to the victim allegedly because of her gang rape during her captivity for around a year.The bench adjourned hearing of the bail petitions till Jun 4 as the counsel appearing for the victim sought adjournment on the ground that he was recently hired in the case and was not having complete documents.

Advocate Ishtiaq Ibrahim appeared for the suspects and requested the court that the results of the polygraph tests may also be summoned on next hearing.

BAIL GRANTED: The same bench granted bail to two juvenile offenders charged with slaughtering a person to death in an honour-related case.

The bench ordered the two petitioners, Owais Khan and Ghareeb Gul, to furnish two sureties of Rs200,000 each.

The petitioners’ counsel stated that the officials of Mathra police station had on Jan 25 recovered an unidentified slaughtered body. He added that two days later the body was identified by Aftab who alleged that his son had gone missing on Jan 24.

The complainant, Aftab, alleged that the accused, Owais, suspected that his deceased son had illicit relations with his sister. The counsel argued that this was a case of no evidence as nobody had seen that the two suspects had taken away the deceased nor anyone had seen them dumping the body. He argued that the accused Owais was aged around 14 whereas the other accused was around 15.

The complainant’s counsel contended that in police custody they had admitted the commission of the offence and had also pointed out the place from where a dagger used in the offence was recovered.

The bench asked whether they had confessed their guilt before the magistrate, the counsel replied in negative.