Day: April 1, 2008

KARACHI, March 31: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued on Monday notices to the Station House Officer of Qazi Ahmed Police Station in district Nawabshah, an investigation officer and others in a case of the newly-wed couple, declared karo-kari by their parents.

Saira, who recently embraced Islam, and her spouse, Muneer Ahmed Jatoi, approached the high court, seeking protection from honour killing. They submitted that they solemnised marriage of their own accord and without any pressure or coercion.

Saira’s father, Kanhayya Lal, had lodged an FIR (No 31-2008) under Section 365-B at Qazi Ahmed Police Sataion, naming her husband and his relatives in a kidnap case.

Saira and her husband submitted that their parents declared them Karo-kari and attempted to kill them. They said they were being harassed by the SHO of Qazi Ahmed Police Station and respondents. The bench, comprising Justices Mrs Qaiser Iqbal and Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi, issued notices to respondents for April 11.–PPI
Source: Dawn
Date:4/1/2008

MUZAFFARGARH, March 31: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped when she was grazing her animals near her house at the Budh railway station on Sunday.

Reports said ‘H’ was grazing animals in a jungle near her house when ‘F’, 40, came there and raped her.

She was taken to Muzaffargarh DHQ hospital in a critical condition.

Police have registered a case against the accused.

The victim’s family said the accused was harassing them for a compromise.
Source: Dawn
Date:4/1/2008

KARACHI: A fifty-year-old man identified as Sabir Sumar was arrested Sunday evening while trying to dig up the body of an eight-year-old girl at the Noorani graveyard on the directives of a faith healer.

The girl was a resident of the same area and was laid to rest five days back. The interrogation revealed that Sumar allegedly planned an act of necrophilia and then wanted to cut off her finger. The police said that a razor blade was taken from him during the arrest.

Sumar had just started digging when a gravedigger named Salman saw him and informed the police. Sumar was using a piece of wood as a shovel. Sumar originally belongs to Ghambat, Khairpur.

He had come to Karachi a while ago and was working as a labourer. SIO Malik Maher Ali said he was giving contradictory statements.

Sometime he says that he is married and has two children. Other times, he claims to be engaged to his uncle’s daughter in his hometown. His uncle did not agree to the marriage, for which Sumar sought the help of a faith healer. “We have recovered charas from his possession,” added Ali.

FIR No. 90/08 under section 297 has been registered against the accused and he will be produced in the court of the Judicial Magistrate East today (Tuesday), added the officer.
Source: Daily Times
Date:4/1/2008

KARACHI, March 31: The civil judge and judical magistrate, East, Javed Hussain, on Monday further extended the police remand of a security officer of the Mazar-i-Quaid till April 1 for his alleged involvement in the gang-rape of an 18-year-old woman on the premises of the mausoleum.

The investigation officer, Sabir Hussain, told the court that the police were conducting raids for the arrest of the other culprits on the information provided by the arrested suspect, but had so far not succeeded. He requested the court to extend the physical remand of the suspect for further interrogations, which he said would prove to be helpful in arresting the other accused.

The court, while extending the remanded of the suspect for one day, directed the IO to submit a final report on Tuesday.

The police had arrested an assistant manager of the security posted at the mausoleum in connection with the gang-rape of a young woman, who was kidnapped from the premises of the Mazar by unknown men on the night of March 15 and was later found in an unstable condition outside the mausoleum on March 17.

Earlier, the court had recorded the statement of the victim under Section 164 of CrPC in which she had stated that around five men took her to a store room in the mausoleum at gunpoint, where she was sexually assaulted.

The case (FIR No 50/08) was registered at the Brigade police station under Section 365/B of the Pakistan Penal Code – the section was inserted in the penal code through the Protection of Women Act 2006 – on the complaint of the victim’s father, Bashir Ahmed.

Meanwhile, the civil judge and judical magistrate, Central, Khushi Mohammad remanded three policemen, in judicial custody till April 4.

According to the prosecution, police constables Mohammad Imran, Arif Hussain, and Salman, had allegedly opened fire on Zubair Khan and Mohammad Saqib on March 21 near Sakhi Hasan, North Nazimabad. Both the youngsters were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, but Zubair succumbed to his injuries, while Saqib survived but sustained serious injuries.

A case (FIR No 164/08) was registered under Sections 302, 324/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Taimuria police station.
Source: Dawn
Date:4/1/2008