OKARA: On the orders of District Police Officer (DPO), a Station Police Officer (SHO) in Okara city of Punjab has been terminated after a woman accused him of assault and rape.
According to details, District Police Officer (DPO) Omer Saeed Malik had ordered an official inquiry and formed a committee to probe the allegations. The committee includes DSP President Circle Saleem Ahmed and DSP Traffic Pir Riaz Ahmed.
After the inquiry report came, the SHO Anjum Zia was found guilty. In this regard, District Police Officer (DPO) issued orders of the termination of SHO Anjum Zia.
Earlier the woman, named Saba, has filed a complaint against Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Anjum Zia. The woman alleged that the SHO had beaten and sexually abused her several times.
She said that the suspect promised to marry her and called her to his place. “My family told me that if he doesn’t marry me, I should either leave him or persuade him for marriage,” the woman said.
“We had an argument over this. He [the SHO] came back late at night after 11 pm with a wooden stick in his hand and started beating me,” she added.
Earlier in June, a cleric had been allegedly involved in sexually assaulting children in a mosque for the past fifteen years, it had been revealed.
A complaint has also been filed over the incident where children and students were being allegedly abused by a cleric in Jamia mosque of Model Town, Lahore. According to the complaints and Masjid committee, the man and his brother were involved in such gruesome acts.