A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted while another thwarted the rape attempt in Chak Jhumra on Wednesday.
Police said the wife of Muhammad Arshad came from Okara to see her brother Firdous Tufail, a resident of suburban village 471 GB. She used to work in homes to make ends meet for her children.
On July 5, a milkman Zulqarnain Haider alias Babar, who came to her house to deliver milk, tricked her into offering work in three or four houses and called her to Pul Nehar Ashrafabad from where he took the woman with him.
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At sunset, the suspect took the woman to the fields of 471 GB and raped her.
Meanwhile, suspect Ghulam Bheek, Irshad alias Chhada who had entered the house of Shahida Parveen, a resident of 272 JB on Jhang Road, tried to rape her, which she thwarted by making noise.
Police registered a case under section 376(Punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code and started searching for the suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2021.
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