Two women, minor allegedly raped in Faisalabad

Two women as well as a minor boy were allegedly sexually assaulted in the district on Friday. Police said that in a case filed by Shahzeb, a resident of Johar Colony Baseline, in Millat Town police station, it had been stated that his paternal aunt was travelling to Faisalabad from Sahiwal.

When she reached near Faisalabad from Lari Adda in a rickshaw, she lost her way and was unable to find her nephew’s house.

Meanwhile, taking advantage of the situation, the accused Muzammil Hussain, Raja and others, abducted the victim and took her to one the suspects’ house where they raped her.

The alleged rapists also looted Rs50,000 cash and clothes from the victim and ‘sent her back’ to Sahiwal from Lari Adda. The victim informed her family after she reached Sahiwal.

Millat Town police registered a case against the accused under Section 376TP.

Meanwhile, another woman was gang raped by the accused Arshad, Asif and Latif. The victim was alone in her house located in suburban village 73GB when the incident took place.

As per details available with The Express Tribune, this was the second time this victim was raped by the accused Arshad.

The alleged rapist had also raped the same victim around a year ago after which he was arrested. However, the accused was released from jail after certain witnesses reportedly gave a false testimony in the case of 766/19 crime 376 TP in Thikriwala police station.

Police registered a case against the three accused under Section 376TPP.

Moreover, an 11-year-old boy, the son of Muhammad Tahir was called by the accused Iftikhar to his farm in the suburban village 170GB. The accused then took the minor to Faisal Kamad area where he raped him.

Separately, in Chak No 383GB, Amjad Ali teenage daughter was sleeping alone in her house when the accused Ijaz and Jahan Khan barged into her residence and attempted to rape her. However, the victim resisted and screamed which caught the attention of nearby people.

Police registered a case under Section 376/511 and started searching for the accused. Cases of sexual assault have been on the rise in the district.

According to figures obtained by The Express Tribune, more than 300 cases of rape and 72 of attempted rape have been reported in the district during the past nine months.

On August 15, three victims including two minors and a teenage girl were raped by men in separate incidents in the city.

On June 7, the body of a seven-year-old boy was found by local residents and police claimed that the victim was abducted two days earlier from D-Type Colony and sexually assaulted. The body was reportedly thrown into a canal in Dijkot area. On May 23, a teenage girl was gang-raped by five men after being abducted in Landianwala area. As per details, on the night of the incident, an unknown armed man entered the victim’s house by climbing the wall, woke up the family at gunpoint and began searching their rooms.

He looted Rs50,000 cash and gold jewelry from a trunk and also abducted an 18-year-old girl on a motorcycle for sexually assaulting her.

(The victims’ identities have not been disclosed as a matter of policy)

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2020.