Kabul , Afghanistan ( CNN ) -- Police in Afghanistan say they have rescued a 15-year-old girl who was locked up in the basement of her in-laws ' house , starved and had her nails pulled out . Authorities in the northern Baghlan province said they were aware of reports that the girl was tortured after she refused to be forced into prostitution . But , they said , they were waiting for her to fully recover to talk to her and learn more . The girl , Sahar Gul , was married off to a 30-year-old man about seven months ago . After her parents reported not seeing her for months , police launched their investigation , said Baghlan police official Jawid Basharat . `` After police rescued her from a dark room of her in-laws ' house , we saw her nails had been pulled out by her husband . And she said with broken voice that her husband used to cut her flesh using pliers , '' Basharat said . The girl was also denied food , he said . Rahima Zarifi , director of the Women 's Affairs Department in Baghlan , said Sahar was immediately hospitalized . `` She was in a very bad condition when I met her , '' Zarifi said . `` The perpetrators had pulled out her hair by force . She was suffering a kind of skin disease and she did n't even have proper clothes on . '' Police have arrested Sahar 's in-laws , but her husband managed to flee . The case , Zarifi said , highlights how women continue to suffer in parts of Afghanistan despite overall progress since the fall of the Taliban . In the second quarter of this year , the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission ( AIHRC ) registered 1,026 cases of violence against women . Last year , 2,700 cases were recorded . Earlier this month , gunmen attacked and sprayed an Afghan family with acid in their home after the father rejected a man 's bid to marry his teenage daughter . In another case , a 21-year-old , identified only as Gulnaz for her own protection , was sentenced to 12 years in prison after she reported that her cousin 's husband had raped her . Her plight attracted international attention when it came out that she had agreed to marry her attacker to gain her freedom and legitimize a daughter conceived in the attack . She was eventually freed , following the president 's intervention .
Police say they are waiting for the girl to recover to talk to her . The girl , 15 , was married off to a 30-year-old man . Score: 6 Zarifi : The case highlights how women continue to suffer .