Two minors were allegedly sexually assaulted in the city on Sunday.
According to the police report, a 16-year-old girl was lured by her 25-year-old neighbour and allegedly raped.
On receiving information, SHO Nishatabad Mansoor Sadiq reached the spot and took the alleged rapist into custody and conducted further investigation.
Separately, a 12-year-old boy was allegedly molested by the suspect near 199 Gutwala area of Madina Town.
The police registered a case under the provisions of 377 PPC.
Meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy was called from his house by the suspect under the pretext of removing a speaker when it broke down. However, the suspect took the teenage boy to an unknown location and allegedly attempted rape on the boy. After the victim made noise, the rape attempt was thwarted.
Police registered a case against the suspects under Sections 377-511 PPC.
Incidents of sexual violence against minors were rampant across the province.
On October 23, police arrested the suspects involved in the gang-rape of a child.
Reportedly, the heinous crime took place two months ago in Jaranwala area. Police recovered the minor victim’s remains. Police added murder and misdemeanor provisions to the kidnapping case.
According to the police report, a case was filed with police on August 22 stating that the complainant’s 12-year-old son had gone out to play and did not return. He was abducted by unknown individuals.
City Jaranwala police station had registered a case against unknown suspects in the kidnapping of the minor boy and started searching for him.
Jaranwala DSP Jamshed Iqbal Nasir Chishti and City Jaranwala SHO Qaiser Mukhtar arrested the suspects and interrogated them. The suspects confessed that they had kidnapped the minor on August 22. They had taken him to a sugarcane crop where they gang-raped him. When the minor made noise, they strangled him by putting a cloth around his neck and left the body there.
On August 10, a minor boy was allegedly gang-raped in Chak Jhumra.
The 12-year-old boy was working in a rent shop near Government New Model High School. He was taken by the suspect along with his accomplice to an auto workshop. The suspects subjected the minor boy to sexual abuse.
On July 30, a minor boy was sexually assaulted by a cleric in Nishtar Colony on in a seminary.
The 11-year-old victim was undergoing religious training at a madrassah nearby his home. On the day of the incident, the suspect reportedly summoned the student to the seminary for cleanliness, where he raped him.
The suspect reportedly offered the minor boy Rs150 to remain silent over the issue. He also allegedly threatened the victim of ‘dire consequences’.
(THE VICTIM’S IDENTITIES HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED AS A MATTER OF POLICY)
Published in The Express Tribune, October 25th, 2021.
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