ISLAMABAD – A Sessions court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping her daughter-in-law.
Additional Sessions Judge Ahsan Mehmood Malik announced the verdict in the case of sexual assault and further slapped a fine of Rs1 lac on the culprit.
The judge further gave him six months for non-payment of compensation amount to the victim. In the verdict, the judge lamented the immodest behavior of a man who blemished the sacred relationship.
Earlier, Police Station Saddar Rawalpindi lodged a case in February 2020 on the victim’s complaint in which she apprised the law enforcers that his father-in-law forcibly molested her in absence of his husband.
She also maintained that man’s lustful behavior forced them to move into a rented house but the culprit used to visit there to molest her.
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In Punjab, rape cases turned endemic in wake of record sexual violence incidents. Earlier, Punjab Information Commission revealed that a total of 2,439 women were raped and 90 were murdered during the course of the previous six months in the region.
