Day: August 14, 2014

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Rape suspects still at large

MURREE: A week after the incident was first reported, the Murree police have failed to arrest the two men accused of raping a 16-year old girl.

Mahra* was allegedly raped by two men on August 16 when she was going to a market.

The police registered the FIR on August 21 on the complaint of Inam*, the victim’s father. Inam told the police that Sajid* and Zafar* allegedly raped his daughter while she was going to a local market in Osia, 20 kilometres from Murree city. A police source said that the police have made no effort to arrest the suspects. When contacted, investigation officer (IO) Muhammad Akram Khan said he was busy with work on an unrelated case in Adiala Jail. Khan said that he will arrest the suspects once he returns to Murree.

He said that an FIR has been registered and he will record the victim’s statement before arresting the suspects.

He said that the medico-legal report confirmed she had been raped, while adding that the report has been sent to Lahore for authentication.

Express Tribune

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Third female SHO given charge of police station in Karachi

KARACHI: A female police officer was posted as the head of a police station on Tuesday, making her the third female SHO to take charge of a police station in Karachi.

The latest to take charge is Anila Qadir, who took charge of the Jauharabad Police Station in Gulberg town.

When the newly-posted officer briefly spoke to The Express Tribune, she said that she was on her way to the police station to take charge.

Before the transfer orders, Qadir had been working at the Women Police Station in West Zone, situated next to the Liaquatabad police station. “I was posted to the Women Police Station for the last three and half years. I am now happy to be working on criminal cases, instead of being restricted to resolving problems faced by women,” she said.

The police officer said that she had received charge orders on Tuesday while reports about her transfer had been circulating in the media a day earlier.

One of the first things that the new SHO plans to do is to check the police strength at her station and make sure the personnel were performing their duties effectively. “It will take some days to settle in, but I am very happy to take charge.”

Besides Qadir, the other two female officers serving as SHOs are Syeda Ghazala at the Clifton police station and Zabinunissa at the Bahadurabad police station.

Express Tribune

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