SARGODHA: After the medico-legal report confirmed alleged rape of a girl in Sargodha, the assistant sub-inspector (ASI) — the prime suspect within the crime — was suspended by the police on Monday.
Departmental motion has additionally been initiated towards the arrested cop who, with help from his personal guard, topic a girl to rape. The sufferer, who’s a pupil, advised Geo Information that her father was arrested by the policeman in a medicine case.
In line 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 towards the cop was registered on the Kotmomin police station for allegedly raping the girl, who’s a pupil.
The ASI’s personal guard, the scholar added, had known as her to acquit her father from the case, mentioned the scholar.
“The ASI and his personal guard took [me] to an empty home within the Muazzamabad city,” she mentioned, talking with Geo Information.
In line with the sufferer’s father, his daughter was left exterior their home in a semi-conscious state in a automobile.
Rape and sexual assault crimes aren’t 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 girl mentioned 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 12 months, the Sustainable Social Growth Organisation (SSDO) launched information on violence towards ladies in 2023.
In Punjab, a complete of 6,624 circumstances have been reported final 12 months, which meant that roughly after each 45 minutes, a girl was raped. Faisalabad, then again, emerged as a hotspot district with 728 circumstances, adopted intently by Lahore (721) and Sargodha (398).
In Sindh, 200 circumstances of sexual abuse have been reported in 2023.
