FAISALABAD, June 19: A woman threatened to commit suicide in front of the DIG office in protest against the failure of the Samundri police to register a case against the accused who raped her minor daughter.

Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, a maid, Kausar Bibi of Shaukatabad, with tears in her eyes said that her daughter was alone in the house when neighbour Jahangir alias Jhango invited her to his house for some domestic work and raped her about three weeks ago. Alarmed by her absence, she said that she hastened to the house of her neighbour in search of her daughter and found her unconscious in a room. The accused fearing his arrest managed to escape from the scene, she claimed.

She said that she had lodged an application, but the area police refused to arrest the accused because he was a close relative of union council Naib Nazim Tariq Mughal. She said that she along with her daughter had approached the Samundri judicial magistrate who directed the ASP to take legal action, but the police were under the influence of the Naib Nazim. Despite the passage of 22 days, she said the police did not approach the medical officer for getting the medico-legal certificate.

She claimed that she was running from pillar to post to get registered the rape case against the accused, but to no avail.

She asked the Punjab governor and chief minister to take stock of the situation and direct the high-ups of the local police to register the rape case and arrest the accused.