Groom lets friends rape his bride
IANS MONDAY, MAY 30, 2005 04:52:53 PM ]
LAHORE: Three men gang-raped a newly married woman with the consent of her in-laws in what police described as an act of revenge.
The incident occurred in Dera Ghazi Khan town in Pakistan Punjab.
According to Ghulam Hussain, the father of the victim Kaneez Kubra, his daughter was married to Mujahid Hussain on April 28.
This was ordered by a panchayat (local jury) as Kaneez’s brother Abdul Majid had sexual relations with Mujahid’s sister Sumera.
After the wedding, Kaneez Kubra went to the groom’s home. Her husband stayed with her in their room till 11 pm and then left, Daily Times reported Monday.
Mujahid’s grandfather Shahroo Khan and his mother Mukhtar then came in and told the bride that the wedding was just an excuse to exact revenge on Majid for outraging Sumera’s modesty.
Mujahid Hussain then called in three friends - Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad and Abdul Majid Almani - who gang-raped the bride. The next day, Mujahid Hussain took her to the house of his friend Ghulam Mustafa, who also assaulted her.
On April 30, when Ghulam Hussain and other relatives arrived to take Kaneez. back as per tradition, she related the story to her father.
When Ghulam Hussain approached the police, they refused to register a case against the groom and his friends. He then approached the higher authorities, who ordered that a case be registered.
“We have registered a case against seven people - (groom) Mujahid Hussain, his friends Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad, Abdul Majid Almani and Ghulam Mustafa, his grandfather Shahroo Khan, and mother Mukhtar Mai,” Dera Ghazi Khan district police officer Salman Chaudhry told Daily Times.
All the accused left the area and went into hiding after the cases were registered, Chaudhry added.