[DAWN] LARKANA: Hatri Ghulam Shah Police on Tuesday booked a primary school teacher on charges of sexually assaulting and raping a fourth-grade girl student in Nau Abad village.Fourth grade is nine or ten years old?
| In America, yes. It could be older or younger over there -- the Brits start a year younger than we do, and in many things the Indian subcontinent followed the pattern they set. |
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
and the FIR filed under No.9/2016.
The police at the Hatri Ghulam Shah cop shoppe have referred the case to Chandka Medical College Hospital, where the girl underwent a medical examination. On Tuesday, the assistant police surgeon at the hospital, Dr Munir Sheikh, confirmed that the girl's medical check-up had taken place, and that results showed she had been raped.
Dr Meena Kumari, the medical-legal officer who conducted the test, said the girl is four months pregnant.
The girl's parents sensed that something was wrong when she complained of nausea and vomiting, sources said. On Tuesday, the girl and her father Mumtaz held a protest at SP chowk, where the Sindh minister was presiding over a meeting.
DSP Yar Muhammed Rind met with them and assured the girl that she would get justice.
The judicial magistrate, Zafarullah Jakhrani, remanded the suspect in police custody for seven days on Wednesday. He was picked up on Tuesday by the Hatri Ghulam Shah police and during interrogation, confessed to have committed the crime, police sources said.