25
A 'faith healer' allegedly raped two women in Getha Bathha Town near Rahim Yar Khan, police said.
Faqir Hussain, a resident of Jetha Bathha, filed a report Monday at the Saddar Police Station stating that his daughter and daughter-in-law were raped by Bilal Shah, the 'faith healer', almost two weeks ago, Station House Officer (SHO) Saddar Khanpur Abbas Akhtar told Dawn.
Hussain added his daughter and daughter-in-law routinely visited Shah to get amulets, the SHO added.
He said that, returning from one such visit 15 days ago, his daughter and daughter-in-law told him that they had been raped by Shah, the SHO said.
In his application, Hussain said he had contacted some influential people in the area regarding the matter and due to the pressure exerted by them, Shah offered money or land to the victims.
However, Hussain refused to accept.
A first information report was registered by the police under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The two women were sent to District Headquarter Hospital in Khanpur for medical tests while the police began a search operation to arrest Shah.
Read more
On DawnNews
Comments (25) Closed
May 16, 2017 04:52pm
Bold decision to report the case.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:09pm
What amulets? The so called 'faith healer' himself benefitted by from his sham power of so called 'luck producing charm', while ruining the whole lives of his victims. We must legislate and enforce law for bringing such devils to docks.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:12pm
People are entrapped into such crimes due to sheer ignorance...
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:35pm
well faqir hussain for registering FIR against lunatic person. you have saved saved other girls
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:40pm
First of all, such type of people are not deserving to be called faith healers. Secondly, the victims are equally responsible because 'ignorance is no excuse' and why they are seeking their ways to such type of people!!!
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:43pm
I'm glad that this was reported
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:57pm
Only real education will eradicate these menace. Please invest on education, health care etc on priority basis.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 05:59pm
Civil society should support Faqir Hussain, his daughter and daughter-in-law and government should provide them protection. These so called "faith healers" are very powerful in our society.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 06:54pm
Until people understand that no help can come from faith healers, saints, soothsayers etc these ridiculous things will keep happening. Have faith in your Creator people.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 06:59pm
there are hundreds of such faith healers all over the country. Govt is dealing with them only when a tragedy like this occurs. It should be made part of Raddul Fisaad and all such faith healers should be arrested and tried in the court of law.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 07:24pm
It is so unfortunate that these poor women had to go through this ordeal. I guess we have failed as a society to warn the vulnerable to keep away from such hidden threats. Such unfortunate incidents are etched in the minds of the victims but the society tends to forget them before the alleged stands a trial. We have to keep track of such heinous crimes till the justice gets meted out.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 07:46pm
First of all belief in 'faith healers' should be eliminated from the minds of common people. They are nothing but frauds, absolutely hell-bound criminals. One should ask only from GOD and let Him solve our problems. This fact should be hammered in the minds of all people.
Any 'faith healer' when traced, should be put into prison right away.
How can anybody be so foolish or ignorant- two young women going to a 'faith healer' to get raped? This guy should be given harsh punishment to provide a lesson to other such criminals and sinners.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 08:14pm
Why these two young women went to this Thug faith-healer alone without any male companion? These women invited trouble upon themselves.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 08:35pm
A faith healer has that much land and money to offer? Faith healing must be a good business.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 08:45pm
Where are the Muftis and Maulanas? Why these people do not educate masses and tell
them to avoid such phonies. The government should now act and eradicate this menace
from Pakistan before more victims fall prey to these phonies.
Recommend
0
May 16, 2017 09:20pm
another jhoota peer, after recent sargodha killing. does government has any role to play to safeguard its citizens from looting and fraud on whatever name? if so what it has done so far
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 12:30am
quack doctors and quack quack healers, when will people learn.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 01:27am
This shows clearly how bad our public needs education in Islam and believes.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 02:08am
@Khan lala "the victims are equally responsible because 'ignorance is no excuse'" Shabaash, blame the victim for the crime so that the aggressors continue doing this and the parents of victims continue to accept bribes and remain quiet.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 04:31am
@ahmad joota peer? What is a sacha peer? All peers are fake and have no powers to give any thing to anyone. This is like good and bad taliban thing. Both are the same. High time to ban all such peers and faith heelers from practice.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 04:43am
Law should be passed to ban all faith healers, they have no place in a modern society. Local government must start campaign to educate the illiterate people in villages that people claiming they can heal tem are fake.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 05:38am
the government should make a law, no advertisement of these so call faith healer by mean of wall chalking and not even in newspaper,they have ruin people life and they should apprehend those people who claim to cure impotency and other related conditions as it is not only embarrassing for women but damaging for teenage boys also, plus they are not medically qualified in any school of thought of medicine, they just loot the masses and at the same time ruining a person health, I think Dawn should highlight this issues.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 06:28am
I know a case worse than this. A faith healer developed relationship with a young girl. After some time, both the faith healer and the girl disappeared. He eloped her away.
Recommend
0
May 17, 2017 07:49am
No discussions on this crime on talk shows. They are too bust discussing Panama case and Dawn leaks. Nobody cares for ordinary people. I believe that Talk shows should call the ministers of education, minister of transport and minister of health to explain ordeal of the public. So many innocent lives are lost due to untrained drivers and poor conditions of the vehicles on the roads but ministers are lured away by bribes and by their status. Bureaucrats are like parts of idle machinery, who say nothing on any matter. We need bold leaders to rule our country.
Recommend
0
May 19, 2017 01:50pm
We are told that many of our rulers, past and present, have their pirs who help them take decisions related to conduct of office and matters of statecraft. If this is believed, the future of faith healers is not doomed in this country!
Recommend
0
