According to reports   Miss Ruby Perveen, 16, she was kidnapped at gunpoint and gang raped by five men, some of whom had been following and taunting her for a number of days. Three of the men – Mr. Qiaser Shahzad, Mr. Adeel Shahzad and Mr. Irshad (known as Shada) – are the sons of a powerful landlord, who leads the local PML-Q, a political party.

Ruby reports that on 5 October the five entered her home and stole some jewelry before abducting her, drugging her with chloroform and raping her repeatedly. Her father claims that he alerted emergency services but could not get police assistance. The next day Ruby was found semi conscious at a bus stand in Shumali (North) Sargodha.

Ruby's mother Ramzan Bibi was not able to get help from the Saddar police at first, when she tried to file a First Investigation Report (FIR) at the station

on October 6. The family say that they had to ask for help from an assembly member, and registered it a day later (FIR 615/09). Yet no arrests were made, and the family later discovered that some of the accused men had applied for and been granted interim bail from Mr. Samar Hyat Gondal, the Additional Session Judge, Sargodha on 22 October. (This kind of bail is often used when a person suspects that a false case will be filed against them out of malice.)

The victim's family and a Saddar officer told the AHRC that an FIR was not given to the judge, who simply accepted the accused men's promise that an out of court settlement was being arranged. One perpetrator, Qaiser Shahzad, did not consider it necessary to apply for such bail, and no attempts have been made to arrest him. Officers involved have claimed that a settlement is being arranged but Ruby's family have told the AHRC that they do not want to settle and have not been given that option anyway. Such a settlement would be illegal under Pakistan law.

Furthermore, the medical checkup for the victim was not automatically ordered, as the law requires. The family pursued the check up and DNA test themselves, which was authorised by Dr Usman Anwer, the district police officer (DPO) in Sargodha. Yet though a DNA test should also be carried out on the accused, the suspects have not been tested and police have told the AHRC that such a test is not necessary due to the upcoming settlement.