Teenage boy, girl ‘sexually assaulted’
A teenage boy and a teenage girl were allegedly sexually assaulted in the city.
Police registered cases and started searching for the alleged rapists.
According to the police report, in the case filed by Gharib Nawaz, a resident of Chak No 91, it had been stated that his 17-year-old daughter was going to a madrassa.
On her way, the accused Umair alias Waris and two others allegedly abducted and took her to an unknown location where they allegedly gang-raped the complainant’s daughter. The alleged rapists later fled after dumping the victim in the bushes along the Chak No 91RB canal. Reportedly, the gang-rape victim had lost consciousness after the incident.
Police registered a case under the provisions of 376 PPC.
Separately, the suspect Nabeel Ahmed, the son of Mohammad Yar and the owner of a hair salon in Riaz Shahid Chowk area of Civil Lines, allegedly lured and raped his 14-year-old apprentice inside the shop.
Incidents of sexual violence were not uncommon in the province.
On August 10, a young girl and a minor boy were allegedly gang-raped in separate incidents in Chak Jhumra.
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On July 1, a 26-year-old woman, who returned to Pakistan from England to attend her father’s funeral, was sexually assaulted by her close family friend in Lahore.
Reportedly, Faizan, son of the victim’s family friend, sexually assaulted her while she was staying at their home in Wahdar Colony of the provincial capital.
She moved to Faizan’s residence in the cantonment area after her stepmother kicked her out of their home.
On June 23, an elderly woman was subjected to torture and sexual assault by influential people in Muzaffargarh to avenge her son’s love marriage.
Reportedly, Nasir's in-laws, who were enraged over his love marriage to their daughter, kidnapped, tortured and tried to rape his mother.
The accused not only tortured the 50-year-old woman but also tore down her clothes, dragged her and burned her half-naked body with cigarette butts.
On April 9, a man raped a 9-year-old girl in Christian Colony area of Adhorai village, Gujranwala.
The 9-year-old daughter of Joseph Masih, an employee of the Metropolitan Corporation, went to the grocery store to buy groceries. When the girl returned home after a while, she was crying.
The girl told her parents that a man had abused her.
A day prior to this incident, a 14-year-old girl was raped on gunpoint in Khurrianwala.
On February 28, two boys and a woman were sexually assaulted in Chak Jhumra.
(THE VICTIMS’ IDENTITIES HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED AS A MATTER OF POLICY)
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2021.