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Poor teenage girl criminally assaulted

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A poor 16-year-old girl has accused a poultry farm owner and three other people of kidnapping her and subjecting her to criminal assault.

According to an FIR lodged by the girl at Mehrabpur police station, Nazir Ahmed Arain, the poultry farm owner, Arif Arain and Abdul Sattar Burdi barged into her home in Bhudo Mallah village at 5am on Thursday and kidnapped her at gunpoint.

She said that they took her to a nearby poultry farm where Nazir Ahmed criminally assaulted her whereas Arif, Abdul Sattar and some other men remained outside the room where she went through the ordeal.

She said that her father and other relatives reached the poultry farm after hearing her cries and got her out of the room after fighting with Arain and his friends. Nazir Ahmed and Abdul Sattar Burdi had been arrested while Ishtiaq Arain and Arif Arain were at large.

Head Constable K.K. Baloch said that the villagers had injured Abdul Sattar and Nazir Ahmed with hatchets and sticks before police took them into custody. Police had sent the girl to a hospital for medical examination, he said.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/22/2009