Man held for ‘sexually harassing’ colleague
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: The local police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a colleague along with his friends at a bank situated in the heavily-guarded Diplomatic Enclave. The victim, identified in the FIR as (A.H.), lodged a complaint with SSP Sikandar Hayat stating that the accused Ch Muhammad Yousuf, a PRO, rang her up on August 19, telling her that he was coming to pick her up, as he had to discuss “something urgent” with her.
She said the accused picked her up from Chandni Chowk, Rawalpindi, and drove her to a house in Islamabad where he detained her. Later, the house boy told her that she had been detained in a house situated in the Diplomatic Enclave. The woman alleged that Mr. Yousuf and his friends forced her to drink liquor and when she got drunk they sexually assaulted her and later shifted her to another apartment in F-10.
The woman said she was allowed to talk to her mother at gunpoint only to tell her that she would be back after a few days. The woman further alleged that the accused forced her to take narcotics and later shifted her to a private hostel and disappeared. The victim complained that she could not dare lodge a complaint with the police soon after the incident, as a man, who identified himself as an inspector in Pindi police had threatened her with serious consequences if she contacted the police.
The victim’s father runs a canteen at a school in Sector G-9. When ASP Ishfaq Ahmed of the Investigation Wing was contacted, he said the accused had been arrested and investigations were underway. However, he was of the view that the girl had not been sexually assaulted. Meanwhile, two robberies were committed in different parts of Islamabad on Sunday.
Source: Dawn
Date:10/30/2006
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