In Pakistan, a police officer is suspected of raping a woman seeking protection. The pregnant woman approached a police officer on Tuesday after an argument with her husband on her way to a police station and asked for help. That was the beginning of her ordeal.
The alleged perpetrator took the pregnant woman to an apartment on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad and raped her there, a police spokesman said on Sunday. “The suspect, a police officer, has been arrested and is being investigated,” police said.
The Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday that senior officials initially tried to withhold details of the case. The police officer would have belonged to a unit that was officially presented on Friday. The Ministry of the Interior feared that the rape would give the unit a bad image.
Chemical castration or death penalty possible
Violence against women repeatedly provoked strong resistance from civil society in the South Asian country of more than 240 million people. In late 2022, under public pressure, parliament passed a law that would provide for chemical castration or the death penalty for sex offenders in particularly serious cases of rape or child abuse.
Source: Krone
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