Five ‘rapists’ held

MUZAFFARGARH: Five men on Monday night allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl at Rampur village of Tehsil Jatoi, some 80-km away from city area. Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested the suspects and registered a case against them. The police said the girl had identified three of them. Police said ‘R’ went to a watercourse for washing clothes from where suspect ‘Al’ took her to a dyke and allegedly raped her. Later his four accomplices came there and gang-raped her. On Tuesday, the suspects threw the girl outside her home and threatened her father ‘M’ with dire consequences if he reported the matter to the police. The girl’s father contacted the police. The girl was removed to Jatoi THQ Hospital and medico-legal examination confirmed rape. Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2014