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Gang-rape of seminary student

September 26, 2010
MIANWALI: Isakhel Additional Sessions Judge Abdul Haq Jappa cancelled the bail of an accused involved in the gang rape of a seminary student.
Complainant Hafiza Shafia Saeed, 16, alleged that she was a student of a seminary at Astana Aalia Nooria Koh Chandan where Rashiduz Zaman, grandson of Pir Muniruz Zaman, and another student Muhammad Tariq raped her and made her obscene videos. She said that the accused used to rape her. She said later the accused sold her to Ayaz Khan, a resident of Lakki Marwat, on the pretext of marrying her. After sometime, the victim contacted her parents and her father Muhammad Saeed brought her back to Kot Chandana after paying money.
The victim tried to get a case registered with the Kalabagh police, but failed to do so. The additional sessions judge ordered the Kalabagh police to register a case against the accused under section 376, 371 A & B of the PPC, but the police registered a case under section 376 of the PPC.
Addressing a press conference, Shafia Saeed said that the police were afraid of renowned religious figures of Kot Chandana and reluctant to arrest co-accused Tariq and Ayaz. He alleged that the police did not comply with court orders and did not include section 371 A & B in the FIR. The victim said that all the female students were doing domestic jobs of pirs by looking after their cows, buffaloes and cooking their meals. She alleged that all the students were subjected to sex abuses by the sons and grandsons of the pirs. She said that girl students did not disclose the wrongdoings of ‘scions’ of the pirs. She said that she could not appear in the matriculation examination as the pirs deceived her.
She appealed to IGP Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to order a high-level inquiry into the matter and award exemplary punishment for the accused.
When contacted, Kalabagh SHO Badr Muneer categorically refused to arrest co-accused Tariq and Ayaz. He said that he

would arrest both accused if they proved guilty.