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  "path": "/news/2001543/5-booked-for-allegedly-gang-raping-girl-in-sindhs-ghotki",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T15:56:25.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.dawn.com",
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  "textContent": "HYDERABAD: Adilpur police registered a first information report (FIR) of the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl in Sindh’s Ghotki district on Tuesday, more than two weeks after the incident was said to have taken place.\n\nThe FIR, a copy of which is available with _Dawn_ , was registered against 5 suspects on the complaint of the girl’s father under Section 376(2) of the Pakistan Penal Code.\n\nThe said provision states: “When rape is committed by two or more persons in furtherance of common intention of all, each of such persons shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life.”\n\nAccording to the FIR, the incident took place on May 3 when the girl and her parents were working in the fields of a _wadera_ (land owner).\n\nThe FIR quoted the complainant as saying that his daughter was working some distance away from him and after a while, he heard her cries coming from the landowner’s _dera_ (sitting room).\n\nHe said his wife ran toward the _dera_ after hearing their daughter’s cries. The landowner was present there along with four other men.\n\nThe complainant identified three of those men in the FIR, but the fourth man, who he said was carrying a gun, remains unidentified.\n\nAccording to the complainant, the landowner and one other man told one of their workers to strip the girl.\n\n“My wife and daughter were pleading, but the armed man held them at gunpoint,” the FIR quoted the complainant as saying.\n\nHe alleged that the suspects stripped and gang-raped his daughter, adding that they also threatened to kill him and his family in case they lodged a complaint against them.\n\nPreviously, police claimed that there was no truth to the allegation of gang rape.\n\n_Dawn_ reached out to Ghotki Senior Superintendent of Police Anwer Khetran and Sukkur Deputy Inspector General Nasir Aftab for a comment on the case, but they did not answer the phone calls.\n\nWomen’s rights activist and head of Sindh Suhai Organisation (SSO) Ayesha Dharejo told _Dawn_ that the FIR was registered after she approached the Sindh inspector general.\n\n“I was present with the family at the Adilpur police station and got the FIR registered on the complaint of the girl’s father”, Dharejo told _Dawn_ over phone from Ghotki.\n\nShe said that the girl’s medical examination had also been conducted at the taluka hospital in Ghotki.\n\nPolice also launched an investigation following the registration of the FIR, she added.\n\nOn Monday, the girl and her parents also held a press conference in Sukkur, accusing the landowner and his companions of gang-raping her.",
  "title": "5 booked for allegedly gang-raping girl in Sindh's Ghotki"
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