Girl jumps from 3rd floor of police station

LAHORE - A 16-year-old girl who was 'arrested on theft charges jumped from the third floor of Women Police Station building allegedly in a bid to avoid interrogation by male police.
She was critically injured in the incident.
A police source said that the victim girl jumped from the third floor after she was allegedly thrashed by the male policemen in the name of interrogation under theft charges.
The shocking incident took place some hundred yards away from the Governors House in which the accused girl lost her both legs, a police official told this scribe when contacted.
The police claimed that the girl namely Sobia, a resident of Ghorey Shah jumped from the top floor of the three storey police building housing two police stations including Women Police Station and Race Course police station (for men) in a bid to escape from the police custody. Resultantly, she sustained multiple injuries and was rushed to Services Hospital.
Police sources said that Sobia jumped when the male and female police were interrogating her at the third floor of the police station.
Superintendent Police (SP) Civil Lines Division Sohail Akhtar Sukhera said that a Ghorey Shah resident Usman Ali had informed the police when the girl entered his house. He later handed her over to the police officials alleging that the girl barged into the house for theft.
The police officials called the women police from Race Course and handed her to them for further interrogation.
Meanwhile, Usman visited the Women Police Station and also submitted an application against the girl who was later identified as Sobia Bibi, a resident of same area and member of a poor family.
The SP said that during interrogation, the girl could not clarify her position that as to why she had entered the house of the complainant.
She was being interrogated by the women police, he claimed and ,added, that suddenly the accused girl in a bid to escape from the police custody jumped from the building and received multiple injuries. He said that her condition was stable.
To a question, SP said that no theft case was registered against the accused girl at the time when incident took place.
He however, said that she will be booked under the charges of her bid to escape from police custody.