A 19-year-old newlywed was admitted to hospital in critical condition after allegedly enduring “brutal unnatural s£xual violence” at the hands of her husband, who has since been arrested, officials said on Monday, July 7.
Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said: “As per the family and the police record, the 19-year-old girl married in Lyari on June 15. She is now in a coma. Her physical examination findings are consistent with s£xual violence.”
According to the contents of the first information report (FIR) registered at the Baghdadi Police Station in India on July 5 under Sections 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd) and 376-B (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code, the complainant, the brother of the victim, said that he was a resident of Shah Beg Lane in Baghdadi, Lyari.
“On the third day of her marriage, my sister was subjected to brutal s£xual violence allegedly by her husband. She remained admitted at a private hospital in the city and was later taken to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Trauma Centre of Civil Hospital Karachi in a critical condition the other day,” the FIR read.
The complainant said his 19-year-old sister married the suspect on June 15. Her health condition deteriorated on June 30, compelling the family to bring her back home. She informed the parents that on July 17, her husband subjected her to an “unnatural s£xual act”, per the FIR.
It added that the husband also s£xually assaulted her with a foreign object. Subsequently, the husband subjected her to s£xual violence, leading to bleeding.
As per the FIR, the suspect threatened his wife with “dire consequences” if she disclosed anything to anyone.
The complainant said the family took his sister to a private hospital on Garden Road when her condition deteriorated, but no improvement was seen. The in-laws again took the victim to their home.
Later on, she was brought to the trauma centre at Civil Hospital Karachi onJuly 4, where she was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), the FIR said, adding that the complainant was seeking legal proceedings against the suspect.
South Deputy Inspector General of Police Syed Asad Raza said that the suspect had been arrested and an investigation has been launched.
