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Police officials summoned by the Court told a three-judge Bench convened at Lahore that four men who allegedly raped the girl on the orders of a tribal jury were still at large. Giving details of the case, which has made international headlines and outraged human rights groups, the Punjab provincial police chief, Asif Hayat, told the court that the girl was raped on June 22 on the orders of the `jirga', or a panchayat of elders, in the remote Punjab village of Meerwala. Mr. Hiyat's deposition came after the Supreme Court took suo motu notice of the incident and summoned the local IG of police to apprise it of the action taken against the culprits. The Chief Justice, Sheikh Riaz Ahmed, accused the police of being lax in handling an ``unbelievable'' crime. The court fixed the next hearing for July 11 and ordered the police to present weekly reports on the progress in the investigation. The police have detained nine persons in connection with the case but the four men named by the victim as rapists are yet to be traced despite a Wednesday deadline set by the Punjab Governor for their arrest. The Mastoi tribe had ordered the rape as punishment after the girl's 11-year-old brother, belonging to another tribe, was seen walking unchaperoned with a Mastoi girl. PTI
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