NAWABSHAH – Police registered a first information report (FIR) against vicechancellor and a lecturer of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU),Nawabshah for allegedly sexually harassing a final-year student.
The victim named Farzana Jamali lodged on Tuesday an FIR against theofficials under Sections 506 and 509(i) and (ii) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
She claimed in the FIR that the lecturer and VC harassed her sexually tothe level that she was about to commit suicide due to mental pressure.Jamil added that her father when approached the VC to take action againstthe lecturer, he told him to send her daughter to her office alone. The VCalso also pressed the father to go for a compromise with the accused, shesaid.
After the victim’s father failed to fulfill the VC’s terms, he filed apetition with a local court. The victim said her father was also implicatedin a fake case and sent behind the bars, the girl added.
The police registered the case against the varsity official days after thevictim shared the ordeal with media on Sunday.
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However, the accused lecturer denied the allegations as false, saying hehad chided the final-year student for not attending the classes regularlywhich might have offended her. He also claimed that the father of the girlalong with some armed men also thrashed him badly on Farzana Jamil’scomplaint.
On the other hand, the court has summoned SHO of the Taluka police stationon September 6 following the petition filed by Jamil.
