Man held for trying to assault little girl

ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: A 22-year-old man has been arrested on the charge of trying to sexually molest an 11-year-old girl in connivance with her distant woman relative. When contacted by ChitralToday, Mubarak Ahmed, the SHO of the Ayun police station, said the police had arrested M.A after he allegedly tried to sexually assault the little girl. Narrating the details of the incident, the SHO said a woman, who was a distant relative of the girl, helped the man to take the girl out of her school pretending her sister was admitted to the DHQ hospital Chitral. Upon inquiry by the headmistress, the girl identified the woman and was then allowed to go with her to see her ailing sister in the hospital. After bringing her out from the school, the police added, the woman took her to her own house where she asked her to wear her daughter’s clothes. The police said the woman then sent her along with the man asking her that he would take her to the hospital where her sister was admitted. But on her way to the hospital in Chitral town, the man took the girl to a house in the Broze village where he tried to sexually assault her. According to the SHO, the girl, who is a class fifth student, resisted the bid to assault her and started screaming and then ran out. As a result, people of the area gathered at the spot and caught the suspect. Later, they informed the police who arrested the man. An FIR under sections 365-B, 496-A, 511/34 PPC was registered against the suspect. The woman, who deceived the girl and handed her over to the man, was also arrested and sent to jail by Civil Judge Chitral 1 on judicial remand. The victim was handed over to her parents after a medico-legal examination. The man is in the custody of the police on a three-day physical remand.]]>