Police arrest minor’s alleged sexual abuser

Hospital is carrying out child's medical examination

RAWALPINDI: A man, who is accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old-girl, has been arrested by the Rawalpindi police, officials said on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the body of a teenage boy who was thought to have been kidnapped was recovered from Attock.

According to a case registered by the Wah Cantt police, Younas had allegedly lured the six-year-old victim to a secluded spot in the Simon area of Wah Cantt by giving her an Rs10 note and proceeded to sexually abuse her.

A report of the incident made its way to the Rawalpindi City Police Officer DIG Faisal Rana who directed Potohar SP Syed Ali to trace and arrest the suspect.

A police squad finally tracked down Younas and arrested him. He has been booked under Section 377 Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) by the Wah Cantt police.

The affected child has been shifted to the hospital for medical examination.

Rawalpindi CPO directed Pothohar SP to personally monitor investigations in the case, and to ensure that the accused are presented before the court with concrete evidence so that the accused can be punished in a way that would make him an example for society.

Body found

Attock police on Sunday said that they have found the body of a 14-year-old boy, who had been reportedly kidnapped. The abduction case was registered in Rawalpindi but the body was found in Attock district.

Police said that 14-year-old Abdul Rafay had been abducted from within the remits of the Wah Cantt police station in Rawalpindi. A kidnapping case had been registered against undefined kidnappers on an application submitted by the victim’s father Shahid Akhtar.

But a few hours after the case was registered, officials said that they found the boy’s body from the Hassan Abdal area of Attock through modern technological tracking.

The Attock police shifted the body to a hospital for post-mortem while the Hassan Abdal police station registered a murder case.

CPO Rana has directed the Rawalpindi and Attock police to jointly investigate the case and trace the suspects involved. Moreover, the CPO told officials to regularly brief him on the case.

Two cop attackers caught

The Rawalpindi police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two men who were allegedly accomplices of armed motorists riders who had shot and injured a police officer.

Policemen were patrolling the Shaley Valley Chowk within the remits of the Race Course police station on two motorbikes when a suspicious car with two occupants (bearing registration number LXW 3883) passed them by.

The car was stopped and two cops boarded it to check identification documents. They directed to take the car to the Race Course police station with the other two policemen on two motorbikes escorting it. On the way, the two cops riding on motorbikes came under gunfire, leaving Constable Imran Shahzad injured.

The injured cop was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

The police managed to trace the house from which the car had emerged. They also identified the two men who were riding in the car as Ahteshaam and Zohaib Aslam, residents of Balakot in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).

Potohar SP Ali said that they are investigating the two occupants of the car as it is suspected that they have ties to the men who had allegedly opened fire at constable Shahzad.

Rawalpindi CPO Rana directed Potohar SP investigate the case as a terrorist incident.

The Rawalpindi CPO further directed that all suspects and their facilitators involved in the case must be arrested immediately, directing them to seek assistance from other law enforcement agencies if required.

Later, DIG Rana visited the injured constable, stating that such attacks will not be tolerated.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 26^th, 2019.