Hindu Rape
Pakistan: Hindu girl commits suicide after being blackmailed by rapists
Islamabad: In yet another instance of atrocity committed on the Hindu community in Pakistan, a teenaged girl was forced to commit suicide after she was allegedly blackmailed by the suspects whom her family had accused of sexually assaulting her.
She was reported raped earlier this year.
The incident reportedly occurred in Sindh's Tharparkar district.
According to reports, the girl jumped into a deep open well in village Dalan-Jo-Tarr near Chelhar town.
Villagers found her body and shifted to Mithi Civil Hospital for postmortem examination.
"The girl was raped by three men in mid-July in 2019 and the accused in the case are on bail," the victim's father and other relatives told reporters in Mithi as quoted Dawn News.
They alleged that the girl committed suicide after she was blackmailed and harassed by the influential suspects who had raped her.
Chelhar police had registered a first information report (FIR) no. 26/2019, a copy of which is available with Dawn News, against three men on rape charges.
The suspects had not only taken turns to rape the girl but allegedly also filmed the ordeal after taking her to a house, reports the Pakistani newspaper.
The trial of the case was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. October 15 has now been fixed as the date when evidence in the case will be submitted, the lawyer of the victim's family, Advocate Mohan Mathrani, told Dawn News.
No fresh case has been filed against the accused after the girl's death.
One of the three suspects was arrested again by Chelhar police on the orders of Tharparkar SSP Hassan Sardar Niazir, reports Dawn News.
Chelhar Station House Office Mushtaq Malik told the newspaper that police would register a new case if the family lodges a complaint of blackmail or harassment.
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