After a lady believed to have been abducted and gang-raped five days earlier was discovered dead in her home in Mehran Soomro village, two nominated suspects were arrested on Monday. Her brother reportedly informed authorities that she committed suicide because she was so traumatised.
Police transported the deceased late Sunday night to the Diplo Taluka Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
The woman was gang-raped, according to preliminary investigation, and dumped close to her hamlet. Before her family members discovered her and brought her to the hospital, she lay comatose for several hours.
She described her ordeal in a written statement she provided to the Kaloi police, claiming that she was abducted by the suspects as she was travelling to Hyderabad to pick up paperwork for her father’s pension.
When filing a FIR against the accused, her brother stated that following a criminal assault, the family was compelled to take the case to a jirga rather than calling the police. He said that certain local elites had pressured the local police to hold off on registering the case.
He continued that she was already traumatised and took the drastic decision of killing herself because she could not stand feeling helpless.
An investigation into the situation has reportedly been launched, according to SHO Ali Hassan Chang of the Kaloi police station.
