KARACHI, May 8: Former minority MNA and PPP leader Dr Khatumal Jeewan condemning the gang-rape of a Dalit woman in Haveli Thakur, near Chhorr Cantonment in Umerkot district called upon the apex courts to take notice of it as the Sindh government allegedly was hands in gloves with the rapists.

In a press statement issued here on Tuesday, the minority leader said that three drunken so-called upper caste Thakurs intruded into the house of Dechand Meghwal at midnight and gang-raped his wife at gunpoint.

According to Dr Jeewan, the culprits were identified as Hurmat Thakur, Peemo Thakur and Ratnio who, instead of being arrested, were allowed to threaten the entire Dalit population of the area in case they protested.

He said that the local police had refused to register the case and was pressurising the victim's family to settle the matter at local level. The PPP leader demanded that apex courts should take notice of the incident and order immediate registration of case and arrest of the culprits.—PPI