Body of missing Chinese national found

ISLAMABAD: Police on Friday recovered the body of a young Chinese man who had been missing for the past four days and was suspected to have been kidnapped.

According to police sources, 29-year-old Li Jin Qiang had disappeared from the Jinnah Super Market area on April 15. His friend had filed a missing person’s report with the Kohsar police and suspected that he had been kidnapped.

But on Friday evening, police found Qiang’s body near a drain in Iqbal Town, around 10 kilometres away.

Per the application filed with the Kohsar police, Li Gong Cai said that his friend, Qiang, had arrived in Islamabad on April 13 and was living in the upscale Sector F-7/1.

Cai stated that on April 15, Qiang had stepped out at 12:50pm to get some medicines but never returned. He further stated in the application that Qiang had left his wallet, his phone, luggage and passport in his room.

Furthermore, Cai stated that Qiang did not know Urdu or Punjabi. The police had subsequently registered the FIR and included section 365 of the Pakistan Penal Code — for kidnapping. They had also informed senior police officers about the incident and launched an investigation.

But hours after the FIR was registered, police found his body.

Man booked for sexually assaulting daughter-in-law

Khanna police have filed an FIR against a man for allegedly sexually assaulting his daughter-in-law.

According to an application filed with the police, a woman wrote to Federal Ombudsman that her husband works in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while she takes care of their three small children in Bilal Town, within the remits of the Khanna police station.

She claimed that taking advantage of her husband’s absence, her father-in-law allegedly locked her up in her room and then allegedly sexually assaulted her. She added that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by her father-in-law.

The victim claimed that she urged her father-in-law to stop and also threatened to tell her husband and brother-in-law about it. But this did not dissuade her father-in-law. In fact, when she told her brother-in-law, he allegedly started assisting the suspect.

She claimed that she had video evidence of the incident.

The victim further said that when she protested against the abuse, they started threatening to take away her children and have her divorced. Moreover, she claimed that her in-laws started instigating her husband against her who used to scold her.

She added that she stayed quiet for a long time for the sake of her children and to maintain the honour and reputation of her house.

Children used in burglary

In an unusual burglary incident reported in Rawalpindi, suspected burglars accompanied by young children took away valuables from the store of a fancy lights trader in the Chandi Chowk area.

Adil Hanif told the New Town police that he had parked his car in a car park near his store and had two cartons containing fancy lights worth more than Rs100,000.

He claimed that a young child allegedly picked the lock of the car hatchback as the car was being locked using a remote. Thereafter, the suspects allegedly stole the lights and fled.

Hanif filed an application with the police who started investigating the matter. CCTV footage from the crime scene showed that a child had disabled the car’s locks while the car was parked. Later, when the coast was clear, the child and his accomplice took valuables out of the car and loaded them into the back of a taxi and fled.

New Town SHO Inspector Raja Mussadiq suspects that a gang who use children for robberies was involved.

WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM SALEH MUGHAL IN RAWALPINDI

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2019.