Woman arrested for ‘stealing’ Shaukat Khanum hospital's donation box

The suspect also confesses to committing same crime in other hospitals in Lahore


Noman Sheikh February 11, 2019
'Culprit' confessed to committing same crime in other hospitals in Lahore.PHOTO: EXPRESS

LAHORE: Police arrested a woman on Monday for allegedly stealing charity donation box from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore.

However, her male accomplice managed to flee the scene of the crime.

According to police, the suspect, identified as Rabiya, was also involved in stealing charity boxes from Jinnah  and Ganga Ram hospitals.

During the initial interrogation she confessed to her crime.



Earlier on September 6, last year a video emerged of shopkeepers thrashing two women for allegedly shoplifting in a market in Lahore.

WATCH: Women thrashed for allegedly shoplifting in Lahore market

The video began doing the rounds on social media, in which the women went to a clothes shop in a market near Jallo Mor.

According to reports, the women allegedly tried to steal a bundle of cloth from one of the shops.

Upon the shopkeepers coming to know of this, they stopped them and began brutally torturing the victims.

As can be seen in the footage the women are first slapped. Another person who reportedly has been identified as Mian Ejaz, who is carrying a club then Ejaz attacks them, as well as, hurling threats at them.

 

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