Islamabad - The capital police have registered a case against Pakistani cricketer Yasir Shah and his friend Farhan on charges of raping, harassing and threatening a 14-year-old school going girl and began investigation, informed sources on Monday.
“Yasir Shah is accused of harassing the girl, her aunt on phone and abetting the rape of the teenage girl,” they said. The First Information Report (FIR) was lodged with Police Station (PS) Shalimar under sections 376 (Punishment for rape); 292b (Child pornography) and 292c on complaint of Sumaira, a resident of F-10/3, they said. However, no arrest was made by police so far.
According to sources, a female citizen namely Sumaira lodged a complaint with officials of PS Shalimar, stating that she, along with her 14-year-old niece Farah (10th class student) travelled to Lahore in June 2021 on invitation of Pakistani cricketer Yasir Shah as he was known to her since long. She added her niece got sick and disturbed after passage of three months.
The applicant told police her niece shared her ordeal upon asking that Farhan, a friend of Yasir Shah, took her cell number and developed friendship on phone. “I was returning from tuition centre when Farhan met me and took me to a flat in Sugrah Tower in F-11 where he raped me forcefully on gunpoint and recorded the objectionable scenes in mobile phone,” the applicant quoted teenage girl as saying.
The complainant told police both Yasir Shah and Farhan threatened her to leak the video on social media and kill her if she shared ordeal of her niece with anyone. “My niece was again trapped by Farhan and raped her in a flat located on roof of Barista Cafe in E-11,” the applicant alleged.
Sumaira told police she brought the matter into notice of Yasir Shah in September 2021 when he was on tour of West Indies on which the bowler threatened the victim and her niece to implicate them in a bogus case as he has deep contacts in police and other law enforcement agencies.
The complainant said that the national cricketer offered to bear all the expenses of her niece Farah until she turned 18 and naming a flat in her name when she (Sumaira) informed the police about the incident.
The applicant accused Yasir Shah and Farhan of trapping and raping the innocent girls in their Sheesha Cafe besides making nude videos to blackmail the girls and their families. Police have registered a case against the national cricketer and his friend and launched investigation into allegations. A senior police officer said that police would solve this case on merit. He said investigators had raided the flats and the Sheesha Cafe and seized some evidences besides recording statements of persons present there.
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