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Murky circumstances surround 'suicide' of teenage girl in Chitral
 [DAWN] Chitral police on Wednesday incarceratedI ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! four local teenagers believed to be involved in the death of a teenage girl under mysterious circumstances. The girl, a student of Grade 9, had allegedly did away with himself earlier this month by jumping into the Chitral River near Awi village, which is located over 85 kilometres north of the district headquarters of Chitral town, police told Dawn.com. An official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the teenage girl had eloped with a boy prior to her death. The key accused, a student of Grade 10, and a friend of his had picked up the girl from her house in the Mandagh area of Awi on a cycle of violence at night, officials added. He said that police believed the girl might have been gang-raped by the boy and his friends before she took her life. A police official said the girl’s body was recovered from the Chitral River near Booni town the next day. The body was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Chitral, where doctors conducted a postmortem examination, officials said. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by the police against four boys ‐ including the two who had picked up the girl from her house ‐ under Sections 302, 365b and 24 of the Pakistain Penal Code, police said The four were later arrested and two motorbikes belonging to them were impounded. Initial police investigations suggested that the girl had been interested in marrying the main accused. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... when he refused, she took her life by jumping into the river. The main accused, whom police arrested after obtaining the girl’s phone records, confessed that they had met on the night she eloped, but claimed she had later returned home. But police officials also said that they had found the victim's shirt, torn from one side to another, in a house in the same locality. Locals alleged that the group of teenagers had torn the girl's clothes and gang-raped her through the night. Locals are also blaming a local provincial politician of using his influence to save the arrested young men and trying to settle the case out of court. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-28 |
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