Court accepts charge sheet in train gang rape case.

KARACHI -- Police on Monday filed a charge sheet against five staffers of a privately run train for facilitating and raping a female passenger in.

The Railway police had booked five employees of Multan-Karachi Bahauddin Zakaria Express for allegedly sexually assaulting the 25-year-old victim on May 27.

The incident had sparked an outrage on social media criticising the Pakistan Railways authorities for failing to have in place safety measures for the female passengers nationwide.

On Monday, the investigating officer, Inspector Habibullah Khattak, filed an investigation report under Section 173 (Report of police officer) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

In the charge sheet, the IO stated that in the wake of circumstantial, forensic and medical evidence and statements of the witnesses, recorded under Section 161 (Examination of witnesses by potted) of the CrPC, it was proved that the three ticket checkers had subjected the victim to rape by taking turns in an air-conditioned compartment.

It further stated that the victim had also identified the trio before a judicial magistrate, who had also recorded her statement under Section 164 (Power to record statements and confessions) of the CrPC, wherein she rightly picked out them as the accused who had subjected...