HARIPUR: The police claimed to have arrested two persons for allegedly shaving off the head of a transgender person before sexually assaulting her in Beer union council here on Tuesday.

DSP Saddar Sajjad Khan said five persons from Chakahee village took a transgender person namely Rosi to their village on the pretext of performing at a marriage ceremony on Tuesday.

However, they took her to a nearby hilly area at gunpoint, where two of them raped her and shaved her head off.

The rape was confirmed through preliminary investigation, said the DSP, adding a case was registered against the five accused persons under sections 377, 337-V, and 511/34 of the PPC.

He said that the two alleged rapists identified as Nazir Ahmed and Bilal Malik were arrested, while others were still at large.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2021