Story of rape on motorway turns out to be a false allegation

TOBA TEK SINGH: The gang-rape incident on the M-4 highway had been revealed to be a false claim and a blackmailing act by an inter-district gang.

Mian Waqar Ahmed, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Toba Tek Singh, stated that in an FIR, complainant woman Shaheen Akhtar of Toba Tek Singh proclaimed on Oct 21 that her 18-year-old niece Irumun Nisa was allegedly gang-raped on M-4 on Oct 11 by two individuals in an automobile while travelling from Gojra to Faisalabad.

The DSP went on to say that the complainant's niece, who lived with her, was offered an opportunity of employment at a boutique by Laiba, and that when the complainant and her niece arrived in Gojra on Oct 11 for her interview, as they were told via a mobile phone message, Laiba and her two accomplices, Hammad and Rehman, both of Chak 288 JB, drove her niece to Faisalabad for the interview and gang-raped her during the journey. 

According to the DSP, the accused later left her off at the Faisalabad interchange, from where she was driven back to Gojra in a van.

The police then arrested both suspected men, and the automobile was impounded; nonetheless, it was later discovered that the entire incident was a hoax to extort money from wealthy people and that both the complainant and the purported victim were members of the blackmailing ring. 

He revealed that Irumun Nisa was not the niece of complainant Shaheen Akhtar. He continued by stating that the gang members made false rape claims and used them to extort money from others.

He asserted that Shaheen and Irumun Nisa and their other gang members Muhammad Ansar, Wasif Ali, and their female accomplices had been apprehended and confessed to blackmailing several individuals.

Earlier, after filing an FIR against a female for making a false sexual assault complaint against a senior civil judge last month, a court in Lower Dir district o ordered her in police detention for three days. The woman, a native of Rahimyar Khan, said that Jamshed Kundi, a senior civil judge in the Lower Dir district, raped her in his official apartment. Her charges, however, were found to be false. She was arrested under sections 419, 420, 389, and 500 of the Pakistan Penal Code for cheating by personation and fraud, and accusing a person of an offence for extortion and defamation, as well as Section 22(2) of the Anti-Rape Act for providing false information to the police.