Sargodha cop suspended after sufferer’s medical report confirms rape

A protest condemning violence against women and girls in September. — Reuters/File
A protest condemning violence in opposition to girls and women in September. — Reuters/File
  • Orders issued to finish case report in 24 hours.
  • ASI suspended, committee shaped to probe case.
  • Sufferer’s father was arrested by ASI in medication case.

SARGODHA: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI), suspected of raping a girl pupil, was suspended after the sufferer’s medico-legal report confirmed alleged rape.

The police has since initiated departmental motion in opposition to the arrested policeman who, with assist from his non-public guard, raped a girl whose father was arrested by him in a medicine case.

In accordance with the police, the district police officer (DPO) has shaped a two-member investigation committee to probe into the case with orders issued to finish its report in 24 hours.

The police was earlier conducting raids to arrest the suspects.

The event comes after a case in opposition to the cop was registered on the Kotmomin police station for allegedly raping the girl, who’s a pupil.

The lady stated that her father was arrested by the aforementioned policeman in a case pertaining to medication. The ASI’s non-public guard, the scholar added, had known as her to acquit her father from the case.

“The ASI and his non-public guard took [me] to an empty home within the Muazzamabad city,” she stated, talking with Geo Information.

In accordance with the sufferer’s father, his daughter was left outdoors their home in a semi-conscious state in a automotive.

Rape and sexual assault crimes are usually not unusual in Pakistan. Final month, a minor woman was allegedly raped and murdered earlier than being thrown in a rubbish dump in Karachi.

In the meantime, police had arrested two suspects allegedly concerned in subjecting a girl to gang rape within the Painsra city of Faisalabad.

The lady stated a suspect, Imran alias Mani, accompanied by three to 4 accomplices entered the Abdul Raheem’s home, thrashed Waseem and tied him in one other room. Then, she alleged, Imran and his accomplices gang raped her.

In March this yr, the Sustainable Social Improvement Organisation (SSDO) launched information on violence in opposition to girls in 2023.

In Punjab, a complete of 6,624 instances had been reported final yr, which meant that roughly after each 45 minutes, a girl was raped. Faisalabad, however, emerged as a hotspot district with 728 instances, adopted intently by Lahore (721) and Sargodha (398).

In Sindh, 200 instances of sexual abuse had been reported in 2023.