Local Police on Thursday booked 250 people and family members of a reported gang rape victims for staging protest demonstration against police refusal to lodge an FIR against the alleged rapists.
As per details, two daughters and a daughter-in-law of ex-service man, Jamat Ali, were allegedly ganged raped by one dozen armed dacoits in Chak 90-RB in jurisdiction of Baloachni Police Station two days ago. When the affected family and the villagers visited police getting a case lodged against the rapists the police refused to do so.
The police refusal provoked the villagers and the irritated people took to road and staged a protest demonstration by blocking Khurrianwala Shahkot road for about two hours against the police refusal to lodge the case. The protesting villagers, who were carrying one of the rape-victim with them on a cart, demanded registration of a rape case, immediate arrest of the culprits and action against the SHO.
They said that a dozen robbers barged into the house of Jamat Ali and held the family hostage on gunpoint. They tied all family members and looted cash, gold ornaments and other valuables and later, they tortured the family and raped two sisters and their sister-in-law before fleeing away, they added.
The local police have booked 250 people including family members of the victims' on charges of creating law and order and taking law into their hands by resorting to protest and blocking the road.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Aslam Tareen said the SHO had SHO Malik Shahid had been suspended and transferred and a robbery case registered against the accused. However, he denied that the girls had been raped by the dacoits.