A bunch of legal professionals in a Pakistani court docket thrashed the prime suspect who was allegedly concerned within the brutal torture and sexual harassment of a medical woman scholar within the Punjab province.
On Thursday, when police introduced Sheikh Danish along with his accomplices at a periods court docket in Faisalabad, a gaggle of legal professionals surrounded him and thrashed him. The offended legal professionals additionally hurled footwear at him.
The police, nevertheless, managed to rescue the suspect and introduced him earlier than the choose who allowed his two-day bodily remand in police custody for interrogation.
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The assault on Khatija Mahmood came about in Faisalabad, some 150kms from Lahore, on August 8 when Danish, an industrialist and the prime suspect, tortured a dentistry scholar for refusing to marry him.
The police launched swung into motion towards the suspects when movies of the incident went viral final Tuesday during which the woman was seen being thrashed by the suspects, her head and eyebrows had been shaved off and she or he was made to lick the sleepers of the daughter of the prime suspect.
Police booked 15 suspects for abduction, torture, extortion and sexual assault the ultimate yr dentistry scholar underneath numerous sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.
“Police have arrested seven suspects, including Danish and his daughter, and raids are underway to arrest the remaining suspects,” a spokesperson of Punjab police mentioned.
The sufferer lived along with her aged mom as his two brothers resided within the UK and Australia. She mentioned she had household phrases along with her classmate Anna.
“Anna’s father Sheikh Danish proposed to me for marriage, but my family and I rejected the proposal. Danish was of my father’s age and when I told this to Anna, she got furious at me,” Khatija mentioned, and added on August 8, when her brother returned from the UK, Danish and his 14 accomplices arrived at their home and compelled her brother to simply accept the wedding proposal.
When her brother rejected the proposal, the suspect and his accomplices tortured Khatija and her brother and forcibly took them to Danish’s home the place they once more thrashed them. The suspects additionally compelled Khatija to lick his footwear, shaved her head and an eyebrow and filmed the humiliating episode.
“The prime suspect (Danish) then took her to another room where he sexually humiliated her and recorded the act,” the FIR mentioned.
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Meanwhile, the Punjab police have constituted a particular committee to interrogate the suspects concerned within the sexual harassment, humiliation and torture of the dentistry scholar. According to police, and the medical report of the sufferer, torture marks had been discovered on a number of components of her physique together with accidents on the face, eyes, elbows and arms. The report, nevertheless, didn’t affirm rape.
Police mentioned prime suspect Sheikh Danish is an industrialist and has connections with a political get together. “Justiceforkhatija” remained one of many prime traits on Twitter in Pakistan for the final two days with individuals demanding stern motion towards Danish and all these concerned on this ghastly incident.
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