ISLAMABAD: A local court in Pakistan’s Karachi city has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping his 18-year-old daughter, according to court documents seen by Arab News on Tuesday.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Naseer Noor Khan, who is also the presiding officer of a Gender Based Violence Court in Karachi, found Muhammad Irfan, 52, guilty of raping his daughter under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code, which deals with the offense.
As per a copy of the court’s judgment dated Dec. 22 seen by Arab News, the first information report states that the offense was committed in September 2023. The victim testified that after using a washroom on the ground floor of her house in Karachi’s Qur’angi area, her father pulled her into a room and raped her. He subsequently threatened to kill his daughter and divorce her mother if she disclosed the crime to anyone.
As per the court order, the victim told her maternal aunt about the incident, who in turn informed the victim’s mother who filed a police complaint against Irfan. Irfan pleaded not guilty to the charges and claimed his wife and in-laws had falsely accused him of raping his daughter to usurp his property.
“It cannot be accepted that a mother would think to involve her real daughter for falsely implicating her husband just to usurp his property,” the court document read. “Therefore, the plea of false implication for usurping property of the accused; does not sound reasonable and believable.”
