Woman raped on panchayat orders in Pak; commits suicide

A pregnant woman set herself on fire and later died after she was raped in revenge by a man on the orders of a panchayat in Pakistan's Punjab province.

The woman passed away at a hospital in Lahore.

A panchayat in Gujrat city asked a man whose minor daughter was raped to rape the daughter of the assaulter in revenge for the crime, Geo News reported.

The woman was married and pregnant.

In a statement she gave to the police from her death bed, the woman said she was raped on the orders of a panchayat.

Her husband refused to register a case against the perpetrators. "I don't want to register a case. Only Allah will give me justice," he said, according to the report.
 

Eleven members of the panchayat have been detained for interrogation, police said.