Day: March 3, 2023

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Man held for ‘raping daughter’

Police arrested a man who had allegedly raped his daughter.

According to the police report, it was stated in the case registered by the in charge of investigation at Ghulam Mohammadabad Police Station, Naeem Alam Din, that the victim, a student of Grade V, studied at a government school.

At the end of the school hours, her teacher asked her to go home, but she refused to do so and told her teacher that her father had been raping her for the last six months.

She told her teacher that she had told her mother about it, but her mother asked her to hush up the matter in order to avoid disgrace.

She told her teacher that her father called her to his room the other night and sexually assaulted her due to which her health condition deteriorated.

On the information of the schoolteacher, the SHO of Ghulam Mohammadabad, Mian Wajid Hussain, reached the spot and arrested the accused.

A case was registered against the accused under Section 376 of the PPC on the complaint of the investigation in charge and the process of investigation had begun.

The SHO of Ghulam Muhammadabad, Mian Wajid Hussain, said that Sub-Inspector Azmat Shehzadi had been getting the medical examination of the girl done.

Police said that the girl had a brother who lived independently, and police would ask the girl if she would like to go to live with her brother or be sent to the Darul Aman.

Source: The Express Tribune

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Two get life term for setting woman on fire

TAXILA: A court in Pindigheb on Thursday handed down life imprisonment to a man and his father for setting fire to his wife.

Shahid Iqbal Khan and his father Muneer Ahmed were found guilty of killing Fakhra Yaseen on October 7, 2021.

Additional Sessions Judge Irfan Ahmed Sheikh also ordered the convicts to pay Rs500,000 as compensation to the legal heirs of the woman or undergo additional imprisonment of six-months.

According to the prosecution, Khan contracted marriage with Fakhra in 2012 but the couple remained issueless. Over the issue, Ahmed poured kerosene over his daughter-in-law and his son set her on fire. The injured was later shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where she died. The accused cooked up a story that the victim caught fire in an accidental fire while preparing breakfast.

In his statement recorded under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code, both the accused denied the allegations and claimed to have been framed. The prosecution also produced a medical officer of the hospital who deposed that the cause of the death was cardiopulmonary arrest due to fire burn injuries.

He also produced three witnesses in his defence, however, the judge did not consider their testimonies strong enough to dent the case of the prosecution.

The case was registered with Pindigheb police station on the complaint of the victim’s brother.

Source: Dawn

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Riverine area gangs rape female relatives of kidnap victims, Sindh High Court (SHC) told

SUKKUR: The Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday ordered Sindh police to submit to the court within 24 hours their short or long term strategy for operation against dacoits in the province.

The double bench comprising Justices Salah­uddin Panhwar and Abdul Mubeen Lakho issued the directive while hearing a petition on restoration of peace in Sindh.

Inspector General of Police Ghulam Nabi Memon informed the court that Sindh police faced heinous crimes such as kidnapping for ransom, narcotics trade and street crimes.

He that Sindh police had announced Rs520 million as head money for 275 dacoits.

Assistant Advocate General Zahid Mazari informed the bench that dacoits were now not only kidnapping men but were also abducting the hostages’ womenfolk and daughters and recording their videos while sexually assaulting them and selling such videos on the dark web.

The bench expressed dismay and Justice Panhwar remarked that kidnapping for ransom had become an industry in which Rs 2 billion annually was being earned.

He said that when some hostages were freed they said that personal assistant to a minister got them released after payment of money.

The judge asked the respondents that police should expose the facilitators of the dacoits. “If we were not judges, we could have exposed the facilitators within 10 days,” he said.

Mazari informed the court that women were being kidnapped and trafficked to Oman.

Whereupon Justice Panhwar said that in such a situation they were left with only two options, first to resign forthwith from duties and second to trust the state.

He said that there was no other option but to conduct a joint operation by police, Rangers and army against the dacoits in riverine areas of the province.

He therefore directed IGP to submit in writing to the court as to how long would it take to restore peace in the province. “Or, do we have to summon the prime minster and the chief minister to the court about this,” he asked.

He ordered the respondents to submit their strategy whether short term or long term within 24 hours and adjourned the hearing to next day, March 3.

Source: Dawn

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Main suspect in minor girl’s rape, murder case held

KARACHI: Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested the main suspect, along with his alleged accomplice, in the Feb 27 kidnapping, rape and murder case of a minor girl, whose trussed up body was found thrown into a drain in Steel Town on Wednesday evening.

The incident had triggered hours-long protest by residents of the area and activists of various political parties and national groups who blocked the nearby section of the National Highway till late Wednesday night.

The girl aged around five-six years had gone missing on Feb 27 after leaving her home to buy something in her Data Nagar neighbourhood of Bin Qasim Town.

Malir SSP (Investigation) Kamran Khan told Dawn that the Bin Qasim Town police had registered the FIR of the girl’s disappearance on the complaint of her father, who stated that he had left his home by his taxi for livelihood as per his daily routine on Monday morning. He stated that his wife contacted him by phone to tell him that their daughter had left the home to buy some eatables from a shop within the neighbourhood at 8am but did not return in the next several hours. He stated that his wife mounted a search and later he also returned home to join her but they failed to located their daughter.

He apprehended that his daughter might have been kidnapped. On Wednesday evening, the girl’s body was found thrown into a drain.

Source: Dawn

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Attempted assault case

KARACHI: A special gender-based violence court on Thursday sentenced a man to five-year imprisonment for attempting to sexually assault a minor girl in 2020.

Aizaz Ali, alias Aijaz Ali, was found guilty of trying to sexually assault a child aged between seven and eight years within the remit of the Super Market police station on Dec 15, 2020.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (Central) Zabiha Khattak on Thursday pronounced her judgement, which was earlier reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from the defence and prosecution.

The convict, who was produced in custody, was sent to the prison to serve out the remaining term of his sentence.

Source: Dawn

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