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Woman raped on panchayat orders in Pak; commits suicide

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Press Trust of India Lahore
Last Updated : Nov 12 2016 | 10:22 PM IST
A pregnant woman set herself on fire and later died after she was raped in revenge by a man on the orders of a panchayat in Pakistan's Punjab province.
The woman passed away at a hospital in Lahore.
A panchayat in Gujrat city asked a man whose minor daughter was raped to rape the daughter of the assaulter in revenge for the crime, Geo News reported.
The woman was married and pregnant.
In a statement she gave to the police from her death bed, the woman said she was raped on the orders of a panchayat.
Her husband refused to register a case against the perpetrators. "I don't want to register a case. Only Allah will give me justice," he said, according to the report.
Eleven members of the panchayat have been detained for interrogation, police said.

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First Published: Nov 12 2016 | 10:22 PM IST

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