"Surgical castration of rapists", Govt to table bill after PM approves

(Karachi) The government has decided to bring a bill in the parliament aimed at penalizing sex offenders and rapists with castration, media reported on Monday.

According to details, the bill will be tabled in the parliament after approval from Prime Minister Imran Khan. However, legislation on the bill has begun. Under the said law, a rapist will be castrated once proven guilty.

Meanwhile, the task of furnishing the draft bill has been assigned to Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda.

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Earlier, Vawda held a detailed meeting with the PM over the matter and put forward suggestions to punish sex offenders. He also proposed public hanging of those involved in such a heinous act. The minister opined that introducing such a bill will help in stopping such incidents from happening in future and will to set an example for criminals.

On September 9, a woman was allegedly gang raped during a robbery bid in Gujjarpura along the recently inaugurated Lahore-Sialkot Motorway.

Police said the victim was travelling with her children in a car when the vehicle stalled due to lack of petrol. She called a relative and sent him her location on the Motorway. When the relative arrived at the location, he saw the victim driving the car towards them with broken window panes.

The woman told police that she was waiting for the family to arrive to pick her and the children when two armed assailants allegedly attacked her.

One suspect hit the car with clubs and the other held them hostage at gunpoint. The attackers then took her and the children to a nearby forested area where the victim claims they gang raped her. Later on, they robbed her of valuables and left her stranded.