KARACHI: On Saturday it came to attention that the police registered a case of sexual assault committed against a teenage girl by four suspects. The case was registered upon the request of the victim’s mother in the wake of the medical report confirming the assault.
Two days back, as the video statement of the victim’s mother went viral, Karachi police chief Dr Amir Ahmed Shaikh ordered an inquiry into it.
A 60-year-old woman was booked by the Gulistaan-e-Jauhar police as the grieved mother alleged that she was “responsible for the rape of her daughter”.
The 15-year-old was brought in for a medical examination at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Friday night around 11.30pm.
That she was subjected to a sexual assault, was confirmed by the on-duty Medico-Legal Officer Dr Zakia Khurshid assault.
SSP East (Investigation) Dr Mohammad Farooq told a private news agency that the woman alleged that her daughter was gang-raped a week ago.
The Back-story
The victim’s mother lived with her five children in an apartment building in Gulistan-i-Jauhar while her husband was away at work in Islamabad.
In an earlier FIR, reported on March 19, the suffering woman had nominated one of the gang-rapists under section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the PPC. She, at that time, had relations with him. Later, she nullified her case stating that it was based on a misunderstanding.
The recent FIR under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) was against a sexagenarian and four men.
The 15-year-old was threatened with an acid attack by the old woman in case she protested or reported the attack. The woman together with men had visited the child at the apartment while her mum was away.
In the new FIR, the woman nominated a 60-year-old woman, who also lived in the same building.
The DIG said that when the elderly woman was called in, she came with 25 other female residents of the apartment building. They demanded that the victim’s mother leave the building. The demand was made on May 07.
In the wake of a fire started in the supermarket, some reporters recorded the complainant’s story and it went viral on social media.