Rapist father’ remanded in police custody

MIRPURKHAS: The Judicial Magistrate Mirpurkhas has remanded in police custody for four days, Akram who has been accused of raping his daughter, here on Thursday.

The town investigation police produced Akram Baig in the court under the case of section 376 lodged in the town police station on Wednesday on the complaint of Musamat Jameela, wife of the accused Akram Baig.

Jameela has accused that her husband had sexually assaulted their daughter Arooba, 12, student of class six. She said that her daughter Arooba told her that her father Akram Baig raped her at night. The police brought the girl to the civil hospital for a medical examination.

Akram Baig, while talking to this correspondent said that he is innocent and his brothers have implicated him in a false case, as there was a property dispute between him and his brothers. He further said that his wife and daughter were threatened by his brothers and forced into implicating him in a false case.
Source: Daily Times
Date:11/16/2007