CHICHAWATNI: A local village council (Panchayat) ordered a suspected rapist?s sister to marry the rape survivor?s husband as punishment in Punjab?s Chichawatni, it emerged on Monday.

The 14-year-old was married to the rape survivor?s husband upon the Panchayat?s orders.

According to police, Rafique Ahmad had been accused of raping a married woman.

Following which, the other party?s members came to Rafique?s residence and took his 14-year-old sister on gunpoint.

The girl was then forced to marry the rape survivor?s husband by force at a local landlord's dera (side house).

Police registered a case against 10 suspects, including the head of the Panchayat.

Five of the suspects were arrested, whereas, five others took bail from a local court.

Last week, a horrific incident took place in Multan when members of a panchayat (local council) ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment for a rape allegedly committed by her brother.