KARACHI, Dec 20: The Darakhshan police on Monday registered a case against unidentified persons for kidnapping and raping a young girl.

Officials said that two girls reached the Darakhshan police station and informed the police that they were kidnapped by unidentified persons in the Defence area when they were returning home after attending a birthday party in the early hours of Monday.

They said that the kidnappers tortured both of them and raped one of them.

“The girls told the police that a few men intercepted their car, forced them to leave the vehicle and sit with them in their car. They added that they were then taken to some place not known to them,” said Clifton SP Tariq Dharejo. “The criminals also took the girls’ car along and they finally left the girls in DHA Phase VIII, Khayaban-i-Qasim, early in the morning after gang-raping one of them. The girls’ car was also found there.”

An initial medical examination that took place at the Civil Hospital Karachi suggested that the girl was sexually assaulted.

Later, the police registered an FIR (585/2010) under Sections 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim girl against unidentified persons.

The Chief Minister’s Adviser, Sharmila Farooqui, met the victim at the Darakhshan police station. She later told newsmen that only one girl underwent a medico-legal examination since her companion told the police that she was not sexually assaulted but only tortured.

“The girls have yet to tell us the exact location from where they were kidnapped,” said the Clifton SP.