Pakistan: Tribal girl stoned to dying by husband and his brothers over adultery allegations

On 1st September, a tribal girl belonging to the Alkani tribe in Rajanpur district of Pakistan’s Punjab province was stoned to dying after being brutally tortured for alleged adultery. As per the reviews, the sufferer’s husband had accused her of adultery. He and his two brothers tied the sufferer to a tree and stoned her to dying after brutally torturing her. They crushed her cranium with stones and golf equipment, the reviews mentioned.

A girl was stoned to dying in #Pakistan’s #Punjab province for allegedly committing adultery, police mentioned as quoted by media sources.

The incident occurred in Rajanpur district of #Punjab, practically 500 km from #Lahore, on Friday.

According to police, the husband of the lady,… pic.twitter.com/2FsnrycWdh

— IANS (@ians_india) September 4, 2023

As per the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, the accused escaped the scene after killing her. Chucha Border Military Police has filed an FIR within the matter below Sections 302 (homicide), 148 (rioting armed with a lethal weapon), 149 (illegal meeting), and 311 (punishment for homicide if act going down to facilitate the fee of a criminal offense) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

Quoting some unnamed sources, the lady in her early 20s was subjected to tribal rituals of Aus (trial by fireplace) and Auf (trial by water) round two years in the past. She accomplished Aus with out getting injured to show her innocence.

The honour killing within the Punjab province of Pakistan was not an remoted incident. According to Human Rights Activists, round 1,000 girls are killed yearly within the identify of “honour” in Pakistan, principally for marrying in opposition to the household’s will or having an affair. In a lot of the instances, shut relations are accused and infrequently even handle to flee penalties.