The atrocities on the minority Hindus in Pakistan continues unabatedly. On June 16, Thursday, an incident of two minor Hindu sisters being raped at gunpoint in the Islamic country’s Punjab province was reported.
BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thrusday took Twitter to bring the incident into the light. He shared a report by DNA on the crime. He Tweeted, “Minorities continue to suffer in Pak: 2 Hindu teenage sisters raped at gunpoint in Punjab province of Pakistan. Pak Police registered a case after a 3-day delay as some influential people of the area reportedly wanted to settle the matter with the victims’ family.”
On the morning of June 5, two sisters, ages 16 and 17, resident of Bahawalnagar, Fort Abbas, some 300 kilometres from Lahore ,left their home for a nearby field in order to attend a nature call where two men allegedly held them at gunpoint and raped the minors. Area police official Irshad Yaqoob was quoted by PTI as saying. The accused, identified as Umair Ashfaq and Kashif Ali, raped them and fled the scene.
The girls were taken for a medical test, which confirmed that they were raped, said Yaqoob.
According to reports, the police did not take note of the incident immediately and registered a case after three days. One of th accused belongs to a powerful and influential family and this is what is believed to be the reason for the police’s callousness in handling the case.
As per reports, Kashif belongs to an influential family in the area and his family wanted to privately settle the matter with the victims’ family and not take it to court. This is why the police initially delayed in filing the FIR against the accused. However, after three days, an FIR was filed based on the complaint of the girls’ father.
The police arrested one of the accused Umair Ashfaq while the other Kashif Ali used his connections to secure a pre-arrest bail from the court.