Father escapes from under police’s nose after raping 11-year-old daughter

A step father raped his 11-year-old daughter named Shakeela in Qadir Colony in Factory Area early morning Tuesday and the police, despite knowing the location of the rapist have failed to arrest him, Pakistan Today has learnt.
“I married Abdul Rehman after my first husband died. I had two children, a boy and a girl, from my first husband and twins from Abdul Rehman,” Shakeela’s mother Khalida Bibi, told
Pakistan Today.
She said she came back home on Tuesday and saw Rehman raping her daughter Shakeela. “I tried to stop him but he pushed me and then ran away. Shakeela was crying and screaming,” Khalida said, adding that she hurried to her brother’s house and then headed to the police station.
“No matter how many times I visited the police station, I was told that a case could not be resisted,” she said, crying, adding that with great difficulty she was able to get a case registered under Section 376 and 511 against Abdul Rehman, but even then the police was not cooperating.
“I have informed the police that Abdul Rehman is hiding in his other house so they should go catch him but the SHO keeps telling me that I should head to the Investigation Wing and tell them to arrest the accussed,” she said, adding that the officers in the Investigation Wing were not ready to help her either.
When Pakistan Today contacted the Factory Area SHO, he said that a case had been registered and the investigation and arrests would be completed according to due process. He said the police had to follow a procedure and assured the reporter that the rapist would not be allowed to escape.
In another incident, a woman named Mumtaz was gang-raped by 6 young men close to Ik Moria Pull. Mumtaz had come to the Delhi Gate to buy grocery with her husband Ghulam Mustafa when two boys kidnapped her and took her to an undisclosed location. Mumtaz was gang-raped by Ghaffar, Bobby, Najam and three others. Police was able to arrest Najam after a case was filed by Mumtaz’s father against the rapists. All the five other men are still at large.