LAHORE: Three men reportedly gang-raped two young women at a factory in Gujjarpura area of Lahore on Wednesday, according to city police.
According to details, the three suspects gang-raped women at a factory that makes chairs in Karol Khatti and then escaped. Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mehmood Dogar took notice of the incident.
Meanwhile, the police have arrested the factory owner and are continuing the search for other suspects involved in the gang rape. “The other suspects involved in the incident will be arrested soon,” said the CCPO.
A first information report was registered by a woman, Afshan Bibi under Sections 375-A (rape) and 337-J (causing hurt by means of poison) of the Pakistan Penal Code. As per FIR, the woman said her daughter, Nisha, had gone to pick up clothes with her cousin, Shazia from Fazal Park on August 31 but did not return.
According to the woman, her daughter had called a close family friend and informed that unidentified men had forcefully abducted them from Chowk Begum Kot and taken them to an unknown place where they drugged the two and raped them.
The woman went to Karol Ghatti where she found the two girls at the gate of a factory, according to the FIR. Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar also took notice of the gang rape and sought a report from the Lahore CCPO. He gave orders for the immediate arrest of the suspects involved in the rape case
“Justice should be provided to the girls who are the target of rape in any case,” CM Buzdar said, adding that providing justice to the victims is the government’s responsibility.
A rise in the frequency of reported cases of rape in Lahore has called into question the performance of the Punjab police. Last month, Lahore Police registered a first information report (FIR) against hundreds of men for harassing and assaulting a female TikToker in the city’s Greater Iqbal Park on Independence Day.
In a second incident that took place on Independence Day, a woman travelling in a rickshaw in Lahore was harassed by a man amidst the rush of cars.
