Police in Muzaffargarh on Wednesday detained a Qingqi rickshaw driver on suspicion of rape in the city’s Mubarak Pur neighbourhood, District Police Officer Tariq Wilayat told reporters.
The arrest came only a few hours after the girl’s stepfather filed a first information report (FIR) at the Khangarh police station on her behalf under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code (punishment for rape).
Dawn.com has obtained a copy of the FIR, in which complainant Muhammad Ijaz claims that his stepdaughter, who is 16 years old, rode her Qingqi rickshaw, better known as a motorbike rickshaw, from her maternal grandmother’s home to his residence at 1 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon.
Apparently, his stepdaughter was forced to use another motorbike rickshaw when the Qingqi broke down along the route.
After the Qingqi reached the Chaman Bypass, the driver took the three-wheeler to a desolate spot, according to the complaint.
In response to a question from the complainant’s daughter, the Qingqi driver answered, “I had to pick up some other passengers,” the complaint claimed, adding that the driver then parked the vehicle in a desolate area among some bushes.
My stepdaughter was taken to the back of the bushes and raped by the driver, who then drove away.
After hearing his stepdaughter’s screams, two passersby arrived at the scene and the driver left with his Qingqi.
In the presence of witnesses, my stepdaughter related the whole affair, and the driver had “done the immoral crime of kidnapping and raping my daughter,” he said.
The complainant requested that the police file a lawsuit against the accused.
According to the FIR, the adolescent girl was taken to Khangarh’s rural health centre for evaluation.
Other incidents in Muzaffargarh in the last 72 hours include a man being shot dead and two others being wounded after two motorcycles opened fire on them for stopping them from molesting females in Muzaffargarh’s Khangarh neighbourhood.
Two males on a motorbike allegedly accosted the girls as they walked in the morning. After catching a motorcycle, their father and two brothers attempted to intervene, but the other guy opened fire on them. Shakoor and Hussain were hurt, but Ghafoor died at the scene as a result of the attack.
Injured people were sent to Multan’s Nishtar Hospital for treatment. The Khangarh police have opened an investigation.
Three thieves reportedly gang-raped a man’s wife during a heist at a fish farm in the Mauza Tabi Bhattian district on Monday, prompting a criminal complaint.
He informed the journalists that he and his family lived at a fish farm owned by their landlord, and that he worked there as well. There were three thieves who scaled the farm’s walls on Sunday night and attempted to steal an energy transformer situated there, according to him.
They could not unmount it, so they barged into his home, held him prisoner at gunpoint, and raped his wife in full front of his children, according to the man’s account. He said that after raping his wife; the assailants took her jewellery and a few other belongings before fleeing.
The labourer claimed to have reported the event to authorities immediately, but the police came five hours later.
The rape victim was taken to a hospital for a medical check by police officers who arrived at the property.
A few days later, the Punjab additional inspector general instructed DPO Wilayat to open an official case, apprehend the thieves, and submit a report on the occurrence.
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