RAWALPINDI: A woman was abducted, beaten and raped by four men, including her husband, on Sunday, police said.

The victim’s brother told the Waris Khan police that his sister, 25, had been married five years and had two daughters with her husband.He said the couple had fought about a month ago and that the victim had moved back home.

He said he had gone to Taxila on Sunday with his mother while the victim was walking to their older sister’s house nearby when she was abducted by her husband and other men in a car.

He said his sister was blindfolded, beaten and raped by the four men one by one. He said the men also filmed the ordeal and threatened to upload it on the internet if she told anyone.

The complainant said the men then threw his sister in a street.

A rape case was registered against four people after a medical examination of the victim was conducted, though the men nominated have yet to be arrested.

In an unrelated incident, a 22-year-old woman, who was allegedly beaten by her husband and brought to the hospital on Sunday, died in the hospital on Monday.

The police said the victim was brought to the hospital with severe torture marks on her body and that she had apparently been subjected to torture by her husband. The police said the body was handed over to the family and that the circumstances of the death will be known after the post-mortem report is received.

Separately, a 65-year-old woman, who belongs to Azad Jammu and Kashmir, was shot and injured by fleeing robbers in the Al-Fatah Chowk in the Race Course area on Monday.

The robbers were raiding a milk shop and were facing strong resistance from the owner of the shop, who attacked them with batons, forcing them to flee, the investigating officer said.

The robbers fired into the air as they were fleeing and one of the bullets hit the 65-year-old woman who was passing by, the officer said.

Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2019