The incident occurred early on Sunday morning, when a group of 14 men led by locals Safdar and Mirza approached Allah Wasai and her young daughter Ashraf Mai as they were working in their fields. They were seeking to take revenge on Allah Wasai’s family because her son, Saddam, allegedly had illicit relations with Safdar’s young daughter. Safdar and Mirza and their accomplices captured the mother and the daughter at around 9 am and stripped the mother naked, beating both relentlessly.
During the fray, Allah Wasai’s daughter managed to escape and ran away from the scene, begging passersby to help her mother who, she said, was being beaten to death.
When the police were finally summoned to the scene they took Allah Wasai and her daughter to the local police station and then dropped them off to the hospital, said Altaf, the officer in charge of the investigation. A medical examination has not yet been conducted.
It was a deed to teach “a lesson for the wrongdoing of Allah Wasai’s son”.
And now an old story from our own backyard:
In a similar case,The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said that it will issue notice to the Delhi Police on a woman being allegedly forced to strip before her son at a west Delhi police post last month.
Three constables, including a woman head constable, were on Thursday suspended and an assistant sub-inspector was transferred pending an inquiry into the matter.