Pregnant girl gang-raped in Pakistan’s Punjab, police on the hunt for culprits

Five males allegedly barged right into a pregnant girl’s home, thrashed and tied up her husband earlier than sexually assaulting her in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

A pregnant girl was gang-raped by 5 males in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

A pregnant girl was allegedly gang-raped by 5 males in Jhelum metropolis of Pakistan’s Punjab province, media studies acknowledged.

According to police, the 5 accused barged into the lady’s home. They first attacked and tied up her husband, earlier than sexually assaulting the sufferer, who was reportedly anticipating a child.

Following the assault, the lady went to the hospital herself. Hospital employees reported the incident to the police after the sufferer recounted her ordeal to them.

The sufferer underwent medical examination and her blood samples have been despatched to Lahore for forensic examination, police stated.

Punjab Police has constituted particular groups to probe the case and launched a manhunt to nab the culprits. IGP Punjab has sought a report from the authorities involved.

The incident is the most recent in a sequence of crimes in opposition to ladies which have shocked Pakistan and brought about widespread outrage. Last month, a 25-year-old girl was gang-raped on a transferring prepare in Karachi.

Data offered by the Punjab Information Commission in February reveals {that a} complete of two,439 ladies have been raped and 90 killed within the title of “family honour” over the last six months within the province.

A current report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) stated that at the least 11 rape instances are reported day by day within the nation, with over 22,000 such incidents reported to police within the final six years (2015-21).

According to the final 12 months’s ‘Global Gender Gap Report 2021’, Pakistan ranked 153 out of 156 international locations on the gender parity index, that’s, among the many final 4, an indicator of its poor file with ladies’s rights.

(With ANI inputs)