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Summary A Panchayat in Vehari married a young girl to a 60 year old Ismail after accusing her of bad character. Ismails brother raped her and tortured her mother. Police takes no action against the accused.
Sajda, from Arain Wahan told the crisis center Vehari that Muhammad Iqbal from Chaitanya wanted to marry her. After she refused, the Panchayat accused her of bad character and married her off to Muhammad Iqbal’s 60 year old brother, Muhammad Ismail. Muhammad Ismail forcefully took Sajda back home where Muhammad Iqbal and Amir Muhammad raped her and left her beaten up. Sajda returned home to her mother when Ismail and his brother tortured and hanged her upside down with the fan. Sajda told the police about the incident but the police refused to take action against the accused.
