Teen, women ‘gang-raped’

Molesters film one victim’s ordeal to blackmail her

KURIANWALA:

A boy in his early teens was allegedly gang-raped in the jurisdiction of Mansoorabad Police Station in Khurrianwala, police said.

After the incident, the victim, who had been found unconscious at the scene of the crime, was taken to the Allied Hospital.

Mansoorabad and Millat Town police reached the spot and opened their investigation into the horrible crime.

Rescue 1122 sources said the teenager had been kidnapped by four unidentified people who took the child to the roof of a building near Jhamra Road, Shamsabad Adda, where each of them raped the child.

Police were conducting raids to arrest the perpetrators.

In other incidents, a rape victim, a resident of Chak No. 204 Rabb, Canal Road, told the police that the suspect worked in a factory and had proposed her a year ago.

The suspect, along with a friend of his, took her to the home of a friend in Madina Town where they allegedly gang-raped her.

The complainant said that one of the suspects filmed her ordeal and threatened her that he would post it on social media if she tried to take any action against them.

The suspect gave the video to his accomplice, and both of them blackmailed and raped her several times on different occasions, and took Rs1 million from her, the complainant told the police.

The suspect continued to blackmail her. The complainant told the police that she got pregnant “but the accused, Babar Anwar, forced her into aborting” her pregnancy.

Suspects Kashif and Bilal allegedly raped a resident of Chak No. 63/GB at gunpoint while she had been alone in her home, police said.

In 416/GB, suspect Zafar Iqbal allegedly barged into the house of a woman and attempted to rape her when she had been alone in her house, police said.

Saqib and two other suspects allegedly raped a six-year-old girl in 658/GB, police said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11^th, 2023.