The Peshawar High Court has acquitted a rape convict after he married the woman he violated, Rehan Piracha has reported for voice.pk. The man was acquitted after he reached a compromise with the twenty-year-old woman and married her. The rape survivor has hearing and speech disabilities.
A bench in Mingora, consisting of Justice Mohammad Naeem Anwar and Justice Mohammad Ijaz Khan, accepted an appeal filed by the convict, Dawlat Khan, a resident of Buner district. His case was dismissed on the basis of compromise.
A gender-based violence court in Buner had convicted the man on May 17, 2022, sentencing him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs100,000 in default of which he had to undergo six months more imprisonment.
The victim’s mother filed a report, and on August 24, 2020, the Doggar police station launched a case against him under section 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
After the lady gave birth to a son and a DNA paternity test established that the guy was the boy’s biological father, the man was found guilty by the trial court.
The case against him was registered under section 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code on August 24, 2020, in Doggar police station on the complaint of the victim’s mother.
