Tag: Gender issues

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Newly-wed booked for wife’s murder

BAHAWALNAGAR: Madrassa police on Friday registered a case against a man and four of his accomplices on charge of murder of his wife who had died mysteriously a month after their marriage.

The couple had contracted a court marriage a month ago.

According to police, 22-year-old Asma of Harappa had left her family home to marry Bilal, her neighbour, a month ago. The couple contracted a court marriage in the court and started living at Basti Jodheka in the limits of Madrassa Police Station.

The sources said Asma’s parents had registered a kidnap case against Bilal with the Harappa Police Station; however, the case was dismissed after Asma recorded her statement in a court in favour of her husband.

On Jan 26, Asma died of unknown reasons and Bilal handed over her body to her parents who raised an alarm. They informed the Harappa police who contacted Madrassa police and handed the body over to them on Jan 27.

The DPO’s spokesperson Shehzad Ishfaq told Dawn that a case had been registered with Madrassa police against five people, including Bilal, on the complaint of Asma’s father.

As per police sources, three armed motorcyclists had set up pickets at different locations in Madrassa city at night and they were robbing the commuters of motorcycles, cash, mobile phones and other valuables.

As they were in their looting spree near Fordwah Canal, a victim raised an alarm following which several villagers gathered. The villagers chased the robbers and nabbed one of them. They thrashed the robber with sticks and kicks before handing him over to the police.

Madrassa police are yet to lodge an FIR in the case even after the passage of 24 hours.

Source: Dawn

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Woman tortured by in-laws

BAHAWALPUR: A woman was allegedly tortured by her in-laws, who cut her head hair with scissors here on Wednesday at Adamwahan village in Qureshiwala police precincts, Lodhran district.

According to police spokesman Muhammad Shafiq, DPO Lodhran Abdul Raoof Babar Qaisrani took notice of the domestic violence and resultantly a team managed to arrest victim Sajida Bibi’s brothers-in-law Khadim Hussain and Fida Hussain shortly after the incident was reported to the police.

After the registration of a first information report under sections 354, 337V of PPC on the complaint of victim’s father Muhammad Azim, police have registered both the suspects.

The complainant alleged that the suspects had some domestic dispute with his daughter and they used to torture her.

Source: Dawn

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Police arrest government officer for ‘blackmailing’ woman

ISLAMABAD: The police have arrested a government officer for allegedly kidnapping and blackmailing a nurse after taking her objectionable pictures, police said. The nurse lodged a complainant with the Karachi Company police stating that an officer of the Ministry of Information Technology met her a year ago and asked her to dine with him but she refused. She said after his repeated offers, she went to dine with him but he shot some objectionable pictures and started blackmailing her. The complainant alleged that the accused wanted her to have sexual relations with him otherwise he would make the pictures public. The woman however refused to buckle under. The accused visited her house in G/8-1 and wanted her to go out with him.

“He pushed me in his car and tried to kidnap me but I escaped and reached the police station,” she concluded. The police have registered an FIR and arrested him.

Source: The News

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Rapists, sex offenders ‘should be made an example of’: Senator Faisal Javed Khan

The PTI member took to Twitter to share his views regarding public hangings of such offenders. In the tweet, the senator said that it is essential to create a consensus on the issue of public executions for sex offenders.
He said that people who abuse children and women “are not human beings, they are savage beasts and they should be made an example of”.
The PTI member said that along with legislation, the enforcement of said legislation and prosecution of offenders is of utmost importance.
The statement by Faisal Javed comes amid a time when crimes against women and children are on the rise again.
Most recently, on July 30, Minister of State for Climate Change, Zartaj Gul spoke in parliament about the need to implement Pakistan’s anti-rape law, following the recent high number of rape and murder cases reported.
Gul announced that for the first time, the Pakistan government is becoming a plaintiff in murder and rape cases of women and children.
She added that the government has kept aside Rs100 million from the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) funds for an Anti-Rape Law fund, to aide in the implementation of the law.
The Anti-Rape Ordinance was signed into law in December 2020 by Prime Minister Imran Khan under which fast-track courts would hear rape cases and reach a verdict within four months.
The law also stated that a national sex offender’s register would be created and offenders would be chemically castrated.
However, no offender has been punished under the Anti-Rape Law as of yet.

Source: Geo News

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Man held for trying to rape minor granddaughter

NOWSHERA: Police has registered an FIR against an elderly man for trying to rape his five-year-old grand-daughter in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
A police official told The Express Tribune that a woman lodged an FIR with Pabbi police, stating that she gave supper to her five-year-old daughter to take it to her grandfather, but when she returned, she was crying.
“I asked the child what happened to her and she said that her grandfather Mir Basher tried to rape her but when she started crying, he left her,” she informed her, saying that the accused Mir Basher is her father-in-law and he married thrice.
“One of his wives is dead. Another one is suffering from mental ailments and the third one is living with him but even then he tried to rape my minor daughter,” she told police.
Later the father of the victim also confirmed the incident to police, on which an FIR has been registered against the accused. Police said that the accused has been booked.
“This man has been booked under section 50 and 53 of Child Protection Act (CPA) and has been arrested for trying to commit incest,” said an investigation officer.
He said that incest is more common despite a common belief that our religious society is free of such crimes.
In a separate incident a 13-year-old girl was lured and then trapped and raped in Madain, Swat. She told police that the accused Haq Nawaz called her and she went out to meet him.
“He took me to a deserted house where he raped me all night long on the promise that he will marry me. In the morning his brother came and he not only grilled Haq Nawaz for raping me but also dropped me in the marketplace,” she stated in the FIR.

Source: Express Tribune

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