By Waseem Shamsi
SUKKUR: Police arrested a man from Garhi Chakar village on Saturday on charges of rape in the wake of a woman’s arrest and her confession that she had strangled her newborn baby born out of rape.
The woman was arrested on Friday on charge of killing her “illegitimate” baby and burying it in the courtyard of her mother’s house in Mitho Dal village. Her mother was also taken into custody.
The woman told police that she worked as housemaid at Syed Ali Raza Shah’s in Garhi Chakar village after getting divorce three years ago. After some time Ali Raza forced her into illicit relations with him, she said.
In the meantime, Ali Raza’s driver Madad Ali Gabol came to know about it and started blackmailing her. He would force into her room and rape her in Ali Raza’s absence, she alleged.
She said that when she felt she had conceived the baby she told Ali Raza but he threatened to kill her if she disclosed it to anybody else. Last week Ali Raza asked her to go live with her mother and get rid of the child.
Two days ago she delivered a baby boy but a new fear gripped her that her brother might come to know about the child and raise hell. Therefore, she strangled it to death and buried it in the courtyard of her mother’s house, she confessed.
After recording the woman’s statement, ASI Ghulam Shabbir Abro registered an FIR on behalf of state against the woman and the accused Ali Raza and his driver. Police raided a house in Garhi Chakar village on Saturday and arrested Madad Ali Gabol.
The district and sessions judge of Ghotki has appointed an assistant mukhtiarkar Ghanwar Khoso to supervise exhumation of the baby’s body and its post mortem, to be carried out on Monday.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/16/2010
