Daily Times

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker in Sindh Assembly Dua Bhutto said that child molestation would not be tolerated in Sindh.

She was speaking to media after assisting a family in lodging a child molestation case in the Superhighway Police Station on Sunday.

According to details, residents of Khadim Goth of Malir caught suspect Fahim, red-handed while he was trying to molest a six-year old girl. They handed him to the Superhighway police but the police refused to lodge a case against the suspects on the grounds that the parents of the girl had not complained against the suspect.

Taking notice of the issue PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh instructed MPA Dua Bhutto to meet the family and assist them in due legal process. MPA Dua Bhutto reached the police station along with the parents of the girl and ensured that the suspect Fahim was arrested and a case was lodged against him on the complaint of Naseem Abbas, the father of the child.

Dua Bhutto told the media that the accused wanted to molest the minor girl in an empty plot but citizens rushed to the spot and caught the suspect. She said that it was a matter of ‘grave concern’ that the police had refused to lodge the case. “However, we have already ensured that a case is lodged against the accused and his arrest is made,” said the PTI MPA.

She said we will extend all-out cooperation to the affected family so that justice could be doled out to them. She said she would raise a strong voice against child molestation on the floor of Sindh assembly.

PTI Sindh leader MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh strongly condemned the incident and said that the affected family would be assisted in all possible ways. He demanded a stricter enactment of law to prevent these incidents from happening.

Published in Daily Times, August 20^th 2018.