Girl gang-raped after father fails to repay loan

MUZAFFARGARH: After a man failed to pay back the money he had borrowed, his daughter was made victim of gang rape in Muzaffargarh on Sunday, ARY News reported.

The horrific felony was committed by three men at house of a policeman in tehsil Alipur, over the matter of just Rs4,000 loan.

The father of the 17-year-old girl has lodged an FIR with the police, adopting the stance that the culprits took his daughter to their home on gun point and forcibly raped her.

Police said prime suspect in the incident Allah Bachaya was arrested, while another suspect, Ajmal had got protective bail. Further investigation was underway from Bachaya regarding the third accomplice, they added.

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Bachaya was a renter and clerk of ASI Abid. Soon after the incident, the district police officer of Muzaffargarh has suspended the ASI.

Taking notice of the incident, the inspector general of Punjab Police has sought report into the incident from the DPO.

Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hasan Chohan and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar have also taken notice of the incident and directed the IG police to submit them report of the incident and bring the culprits to justice.

Earlier on Saturday, police arrested two suspects for allegedly raping a 27-year-old girl in Karachi’s Delhi Colony area.

Police arrested two suspects namely Qaiser and Shahzad from the city’s Delhi Colony area for repeatedly raping and providing drugs to an orphan girl. A third suspect named Taimoor is still at large.

Police say the first suspect was arrested on the complaint of the victim’s mother who reportedly fought with him after he approached her and her daughter during a market visit.