GUJRAT: The Phalia police have arrested its own official on the charges of raping a detained suspect and extracting money from him through blackmail. According to police sources, a 19-year-old youth ‘A’ of Sohawa Warraichan village of Mandi Bahauddin, who is presently in the district jail on judicial remand, lodged a complaint with the Phalia police that an official of the police station had subjected him to sexual abuse and rape during his detention.
The complainant had been detained in the lock-up of Phalia police station, along with other suspects, in a theft case. In his complaint, the youth alleged that a police official ‘H’ of the same police station would often extract money from him and his family members, who would visit him during his detention in the lock-up.
He alleged that one day the policeman took him to his residential room on the police station’s premises, where he sexually abused and raped him. He said ‘H’ also threatened to kill him if he disclosed the rape episode. Acting on the complaint, Phalia police registered a case against ‘H’ under sections 377 of the Pakistan Penal Code (carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal) and 155-C. The policeman was arrested after Gujrat Regional Police Officer Dr Akhtar Abbas took notice of the complaint. The police have started investigation into the matter.
(Daily Dawn)
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