Torture, sexual abuse of a maid: Three women among seven booked in Rahim Yar Khan

Rahimyar Khan city Police have registered a case against seven persons, including three women, on charges of torture, sexual abuse and illegal confinement of a domestic worker.

The First Information Report (FIR) No 347/20, was filed with City C-Division police by a woman (name withheld as per newspaper’s policy), a resident of Abbasia Town.

She stated in the FIR that she started working as a domestic worker at a woman N’s house in Abbasia Town and had been residing there for the last two years.

She said that during her employment period, her employer did not allow her to visit her house and kept her in illegal confinement 

The complainant alleged that ‘N’, along with her two sisters, would force her to work as a prostitute and subject her to physical torture if she disobeyed them.

She said that on May 22, 2020, ‘N’ invited some men at her house, who attempted to rape her (complainant), but she resisted.

At this, N badly tortured her and shaved her head with the help of her sisters. She also alleged that her employer had not been paying her salary for many months.

On Saturday night, the complainant managed to escape from the house of her employer and narrated his ordeal to some of the neighbours, who brought her to the police for registration of a case against the suspects. District Police Officer Rahimyar Khan Muntazir Mehdi said the employer and her wife and two sisters had been arrested after registration of a case against seven accused, while police were looking for other suspects.

He said the arrested women had been sent to jail after they were granted judicial remand by the judicial magistrate concerned. According to FIR  Naheed, Shazia, Nazia, Shahbaz, Khalifa, Shafqat, and Yaquob Cheema kept her in habeas corpus, shaved off her head, and subjected her to sexual assaults. She submitted her application for registration of case 22 days ago to SHO thana "c" division  Shabbir Ahmed but he employed delaying tactics. Later the case was registered on the intervention of DPO and three women NJaheed, Shazia, and Nazia were held.