13-year-old girl burned for resisting rape in Muridke
The incident took place in Loharanwali area of Muridke.
MURIDKE (Web Desk) - A 13-year-old girl was allegedly burnt for resisting gang-rape attempt in Muridke tehsil on Tuesday, Dunya News reported.
According to police, the incident took place in Loharanwali area of Muridke where a suspect and his accomplices barged into a house and torched a girl for resisting gang-rape attempt. The victim was severely injured in the incident.
The suspects also tortured girl’s parents when they tried to douse fire, police said.
Later, the girl was shifted to Mayo Hospital in Lahore where her situation is said to be critical.
Police registered a First Information Report (FIR) and arrested the prime suspect involved in the incident.
Screengrab: Locals protesting against the incident.
Physical and sexual violence against women is widespread in Pakistan.
In October last year, a young woman self-immolated after police refused to act on her claim she was gang-raped by their colleagues.
Two officers were arrested after Sonia Bibi, who was in her late teens, set herself on fire outside a police station in the Muzaffargarh district of central Punjab province.
She was rushed to a hospital in the central city of Multan, but died of her injuries.
Muzaffargarh is the same district as the village where a woman named Mukhtaran Mai was horrifically gang-raped in 2002 in an attack that made headlines around the world.
Mai, who became a women’s rights advocate after her attack, told AFP she was aware of Sonia Bibi’s death and said she believed the girl had been "denied justice".
Muzaffargarh district is also where 18-year-old Amina Bibi, who was not related to Sonia, doused herself with petrol and set herself alight in March 2014 in front of a police station in the village of Beet Meer Hazar.
A local court had dropped her rape claim after a police report said she had not been sexually assaulted.
