Challan in gang-rape case still not submitted
April 09, 2008
Karachi
Challan in the rape case of a young woman could not be submitted on Tuesday too in the court of Judicial Magistrate (East) Javed Hussain.
The 18-year-old woman from Lodhran was gang-raped at the basement of Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum on March 15. She is under the protective custody of newly elected Deputy Speaker Sindh Assembly Shehla Raza.
Investigating Officer Sabir Hussain, who was asked to furnish challan on Tuesday, told this correspondent that he has arrested three suspects and wanted to have an identification parade but it was not conducted as her custodian and lawyer denied him meeting with the victim.
When The News contacted her lawyer Sathi Ishque, he said that the IO must produce them in the court for their identification parade.
The IO, however, said that investigation into the case could not be proceeded due to the absence of the victim, while her custodian (the lady MPA) was not available to find out her whereabouts.
The 18-year-old rape victim is passing through “justice delayed is justice denied” like situation at the hands of those who first overprotected her and later left her in lurch due to their pre-occupation in the political process of government formation.
Unfortunately, when the incident happened, NGOs, Shehla Raza and other PPP MPAs shove the case to get justice done and even both blamed each other for grabbing the case.
Now with the passage of time they have left the scene, with NGOs surrendering to the MPA who has taken the victim in protective custody. But the lady MPA is busy in the assembly sessions and could not spare time for this matter.
Sources, however, say that the victim has left for her hometown, while her lawyers informed that she was still in the city along with her family.
Earlier, an identification parade was held and accused Khadim Hussain was remanded to police custody thrice during this course of time.
The police arrested an assistant security manager posted at the mausoleum in connection with the gang rape of a young woman, who was first kidnapped from the mausoleum premises by unknown men on the night of March 15 and was later found in a wobbly condition outside the mausoleum on March 17.
The court has already recorded the victim’s statement under Section 164 of CrPC, wherein she narrated that around five men took her to a store room in the mausoleum at gunpoint and subjected her to sexual assault.
The case( FIR No 50/08) was registered by the Brigade police station under Section 365/B of Pakistan Penal Code and the section was inserted through the Protection of Women Act-2006 on the complaint of the victim’s father Bashir Ahmed.
Challan in the rape case of a young woman could not be submitted on Tuesday too in the court of Judicial Magistrate (East) Javed Hussain.
The 18-year-old woman from Lodhran was gang-raped at the basement of Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum on March 15. She is under the protective custody of newly elected Deputy Speaker Sindh Assembly Shehla Raza.
Investigating Officer Sabir Hussain, who was asked to furnish challan on Tuesday, told this correspondent that he has arrested three suspects and wanted to have an identification parade but it was not conducted as her custodian and lawyer denied him meeting with the victim.
When The News contacted her lawyer Sathi Ishque, he said that the IO must produce them in the court for their identification parade.
The IO, however, said that investigation into the case could not be proceeded due to the absence of the victim, while her custodian (the lady MPA) was not available to find out her whereabouts.
The 18-year-old rape victim is passing through “justice delayed is justice denied” like situation at the hands of those who first overprotected her and later left her in lurch due to their pre-occupation in the political process of government formation.
Unfortunately, when the incident happened, NGOs, Shehla Raza and other PPP MPAs shove the case to get justice done and even both blamed each other for grabbing the case.
Now with the passage of time they have left the scene, with NGOs surrendering to the MPA who has taken the victim in protective custody. But the lady MPA is busy in the assembly sessions and could not spare time for this matter.
Sources, however, say that the victim has left for her hometown, while her lawyers informed that she was still in the city along with her family.
Earlier, an identification parade was held and accused Khadim Hussain was remanded to police custody thrice during this course of time.
The police arrested an assistant security manager posted at the mausoleum in connection with the gang rape of a young woman, who was first kidnapped from the mausoleum premises by unknown men on the night of March 15 and was later found in a wobbly condition outside the mausoleum on March 17.
The court has already recorded the victim’s statement under Section 164 of CrPC, wherein she narrated that around five men took her to a store room in the mausoleum at gunpoint and subjected her to sexual assault.
The case( FIR No 50/08) was registered by the Brigade police station under Section 365/B of Pakistan Penal Code and the section was inserted through the Protection of Women Act-2006 on the complaint of the victim’s father Bashir Ahmed.
