Police register three rape cases in Okara

Suspect in one case arrested within 12 hours

OKARA: Police registered rape cases of a woman, a teenage girl and a minor boy in various areas of Okara on Sunday.

In Chak 24D, Mohammad Younis reportedly raped a woman of the village at gunpoint. Police registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s husband Mohammad Siddique.

In the suburban town of Bonga Kharak Singh, a teenaged girl was raped at gunpoint by Mohammad Asghar, son of Fazil. The accused is a resident of the same area and an armed accomplice of his reportedly guarded the place during the crime.

Chochak police registered a case on Abdul Rehman’s complaint and arrested the accused within 12 hours after District Police Officer Omar Saeed Malik took notice of the incident.

Meanwhile, a minor boy was assaulted in cornfields in Mirzapur.

Hafiz Tariq, the superintendent of a seminary in the suburban town of Mirzapur, found his nine-year-old son missing and his wife concerned about him when he returned home.

Local people started searching for then boy. When they went to Irshad Wali Khowan, they heard his screams from the cornfields. They found the boy but the assaulter, Adeel Ahmed, son of Liaqat Ali, fled after seeing the villagers.

The police registered a case, started an investigation and formed a team to arrest the accused.

Meanwhile, a man was found killed with a sharp tool from a maize crop near Mapalaka Canal within the limits of Chochak police station. The throat of the victim was slit.

The victim was identified as Mohammad Nawaz Dogar, a resident of Phool Nagar.

Sources said Nawaz drove a loader rickshaw in Phool Nagar. On Saturday, an unidentified man hired the rickshaw, after which Nawaz did not return home till late night and his family members started searching for him.

When Mohammad Ejaz, a resident of Mapalaka, went to his fields in the morning, he spotted the body, and informed the local police.

The victim’s family said the labourer had no enmity with anyone. Police reached the spot, took the body into custody and called a forensic team. The team collected samples from the body and shifted it to the Okara District Headquarters Hospital for post-mortem.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 8^th, 2020.