A court in Lodhran on Tuesday awarded 15 years imprisonment to a man found guilty of raping a deaf, dumb and blind relative. The judge also ordered him to pay a Rs200,000 fine.
Police said the girl, 15, and her father had visited his uncle’s house on April 18, 2013.
After dinner, they said, the uncle, Ghulam Mustafa, 66, told them that he had set up a separate room for the girl. The men would sleep in another room.
In the middle of the night, police said, Mustafa raped the girl and fled.
When her father woke up the next day, he found the girl in a poor condition and the host missing.
He informed the police and took the girl to the district headquarters hospital. Doctors at the hospital confirmed that the girl had been raped.
An FIR was registered on the father’s complaint. Mustafa was arrested after a few weeks and had been on trial at the sessions court for over six months.
On Tuesday, Additional Sessions Judge Rehana Nawaz declared him guilty, awarded him 15 years in prison and imposed the fine.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2014.