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PAKISTAN - AGE 13 GIRL ABDUCTED
& GANG RAPED BY CRIMINALS - RAPISTS PROTECTED FOR IMPUNITY - VICTIM &
FATHER IN DANGER.
Threats
to the lives of the minor girl who was gang raped and her father
+ a police officer suspended and transferred for taking action against the
rapists
The lives of Fauzia Khaskheli, the victim, and her father are in danger and we fear that the victim can may be murdered or abducted by the perpetrators in order to eliminate the evidence
29 June 2014 - The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13 year old girl was brutally gang raped during an entire night, by six infamous criminals who belong to a political party. The station head officer (SHO) has been suspended and thereafter transferred for filing charges of gang rape and assault against the rapists. The rapists have been identified in court by the victim and the court had ordered the arrest of the perpetrators. However, local police have ignored the orders of the court to arrest the suspects due to the nexus between the criminals and police officers. One perpetrator was handed over to police and the criminals are trying to exonerate all other suspects by converting the FIRs into C class reports, a term to make the preliminary FIR infectious.
CASE NARRATIVE:
Miss Fauzia Khaskheli, 13 years old, daughter of Mukhtar Khaskheli, resident
of Tando Allahyar, Sindh, was abducted and gang raped on May 29 during an
entire night by six notorious criminals who are wanted by the police in more
than 30 cases and they have been given head money from government of Sindh for
their arrests – dead or alive. The place of gang rape incident was not far away
from the A Section police station Tando Allahyar but her cries did not attract
the police attention. Next day in early morning she was thrown near the Railway
line at Nasarpur Phatak. The girl was in dilapidated conditioned which
infuriated villagers who have protested outside the police station. There were
more than 200 people there,but police officials at the A Section police
stations have been more concerned about the perpetrators as they belong to a
nationalist cum political party, the Sindh Taraqipasand Party (STP). As the
station head officer (SHO) Inspector Sohail Mirza came to know about the rape
case he had immediately contacted his superior, the Deputy Superintend of
Police (DSP) Noor Mohammad Marri. The DSP had told him he cannot file a police case
and that he himself (the SHO) can decide on his own behalf as the perpetrators
are notorious and dangerous criminals. The SHO had then taken permission from
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Mr. Javed Baloch.
The SHO Mirza filed the First Information Report (FIR) under sections of 376
(B), 364 (B), 324, and 337 (J) of Pakistan Penal Code, the sections on gang
rape, forcibly kidnapping, attempt to murder, causing hurt. He had also written
a letter to the public hospital for an immediate medical examination to be
conducted on the victim. The medical report confirmed gang rape.
The higher police officers of the district particularly the DSP Marri has
immediately suspended Inspector Mirza (SHO) from the SHO and had requested
senior officers to conduct a disciplinary inquiry against him. When SHO
Mirza was cleared in the inquiry and he had requested to be
reinstated in his position he had been transferred to another
district but the charge had not been handed over to him.
In the meantime the victim, Fauzia Khaskheli, was produced before the local
magistrate for the statement under section 164 and also to identify the accused
persons. She identified the alleged rapists by seeing their photographs before
the court. The perpetrators also demonstrated outside the court by showing
their arms, however when police reached the scene all ran away as they were
wanted in more than 30 cases. According to reports , the perpetrators have also
threatened the victim and her father that if they do not withdraw the
rape case the girl would again face similar consequences and might not survive.
The police are still refusing to file the FIR for the threats to the lives of
the victim and her father.
According to information received by the AHRC, the police are working allegedly
on the instructions of one Altaf Jaskani, the vice president of STP as his
younger brother, Mr. Asad Jaskani, was also involved in the gang rape. Asad
Jaskani runs notorious groups, extorting money from businessmen and police. The
FIR for gang rape mentions the name of Azher Jatoi, Shakeel Khoso, Asad
Jaskani, Abdullah Nayo and GullanJogi alias Gulla Jogi.
Further information revealed that when the rapists were identified by the
victim, they have made a deal with the police that they will produce one
perpetrator before the police and the police will file a case only against one
accused person and all others will be exonerated from the gang rape charges.
Following this deal, the criminals have produced Azhar Jatoi, however the SSP
had not allowed any such deal to make the initially filed FIRs into a
"C" class FIR as the victim has herself given a statement under
Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The lives of Fauzia Khaskheli, the victim, and her father are in danger and we
fear that the victim can may be murdered or abducted by the perpetrators in
order to eliminate the evidence of the crime.
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