TOBA TEK SINGH: An employee at Allied Hospital in Faisalabad allegedly raped a teenage patient in hospital premises on 22nd September 2024.
The complainant, the patient’s mother, filed a first information report (FIR) with the Civil Lines police under section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code that she brought her ailing daughter to the hospital for medical tests.
The suspect, a friend of the complainant’s husband, asked her to wait outside and took the girl to the labour room. There, he allegedly kept her for three hours, administered an anesthetic, and raped her while she was unconscious.
After losing contact with the suspect, the mother arrived at the labour room with the help of others and found her daughter unconscious. Upon regaining consciousness, the girl told her mother about the assault. The police said that raids were being conducted to arrest the suspect.
Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2024