NAWABSHAH, May 30 A married woman who was kidnapped, abused and criminally assaulted appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan on Saturday to direct police to arrest the culprits and provide her protection.

Ms Gul Bano, flanked by her father Ghulam Hussain and cousin Ali Hassan Chandio, narrated her ordeal at a press conference at the press club and said that five armed men belonging to Shar tribe Mohammed Ali, Fakir Mohammed, Aachar Khan, Allah Dino and Haji Khan kidnapped her from her home in Hashim Chandio village of Sanghar district on May 24.

They took her to a place and confined her in a room where Mohammed Ali sexually assaulted her many times as others made her movie through mobile camera, she said weeping.

She said that they released her after five days and sent her back home in a private car.

Gul Bano's cousin Ali Hassan said that he and Bano's father went to many influential people and politicians of the area during the five days of her disappearance but none of them bothered to help them.

He said that after Bano's return they contacted notables of their own Chandio tribe and requested them to help in arrest of the accused but they instead advised them to kill the girl because she had become a kari and then kill Mohammed Ali Shar as karo.

But they refused to accept their advice because they believed it was not only inhuman but also against the teachings of Islam, he said. At long last, they approached the office of DPO of Sanghar where the DPO's reader demanded Rs20,000 bribe for arresting the accused, they said. Being poor they had not such kind of money so they went to every door for help and justice but no one was ready to help them, they complained. They said that Bano's husband had also refused to take her back and expressed fears that if they sent her to her husband's home without his consent, it would endanger her life.

They appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of the inhuman atrocities and direct police to arrest the culprits and provide them protection and justice.