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| Man remanded in police custody for 'sexually assaulting' 13-year-old girl in AJK |
| 2018-05-16 |
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate on Tuesday remanded a man in police custody a day after he was juggedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Soma Gondola village in the suburbs of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK). On Monday afternoon, the victim's parents brought her to the Nasirabad police post in Patikka, where she narrated her ordeal before sub-inspector Syed Wajahat Kazmi. Kazmi recorded it in shape of an application which was later converted into a First Information Report (FIR) in Kahori cop shoppe. Kahori is 10 kilometres northeast of Muzaffarabad along the Neelum Valley Road and Nasirabad is further eight kilometres ahead. The victim said that on Monday morning, her parents left the house to cut firewood in a nearby jungle and she was alone in her house when the accused entered, locked the door, and proceeded to assault her. According to the victim, he then tried to flee the scene and she rushed after him. Her parents also arrived back at the same time and noticed the accused running away. Kazmi said he sent the victim to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital Muzaffarabad for medical examination and himself left for Soma Gondola village to apprehend the accused. Though the high-altitude Soma Gondola village is hardly 15km west of Nasirabad, it took him around one-and-a-half hour to reach there, due to absence of a road link beyond 10 kilometres. The accused was hiding in a nullah when police caught him. Kazmi claims that he also confiscated the victim’s bloodstained torn clothes from the accused. SI Kazmi said the accused was an illiterate person in his early twenties who had spent some time in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... doing odd jobs. "Had we not taken him into custody he was planning to flee to Karachi the same evening," he said. |
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