SAHIWAL: Police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a man for raping a four-year-old girl at 78/5-R village where she had gone to see her maternal grandparents with her mother.

Fateh Sher police station in-charge A d Shaheen told Dawn that a suspect had been arrested for the minor girl’s rape.

He said the police had entered a case (FIR No 162/19) against the suspect under section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the child’s father. The father, a resident of 160/9-L village, said three days back his wife, along with their three children went to see her parents at 78/5-R village.

He said that on Tuesday he went to his in-laws house to pick his wife and children.

He said his four-year-old daughter left his in-laws house in the morning to play in the street, but did not return till noon. He said that he got worried and started looking for his daughter along with his in-laws.

He said that during the search they heard screams of his daughter from an outhouse and on entering the premises they found the child lying there bleeding.

Rescue 1122 emergency service officials on being called reached there and shifted the minor girl to the district headquarters hospital for treatment and medical examination. The hospital sources confirmed the girl was raped.

They said the swabs had been sent to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA), Lahore, for the DNA test.

Published in Dawn, April 18th, 2019