Foreign woman allegedly gang-raped records statement before Lahore magistrate
LAHORE: A foreign woman who was allegedly gang-raped recorded her statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before a judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts on Monday. The 20-year-old Azeri woman had traveled to Pakistan for business purposes and was allegedly gang-raped by three men in a rented flat of a private housing society located near Raiwind on the night between…
A 20-year-old Azeri woman who was traveling to Pakistan for business purposes alleged she was gang-raped by three men in a rented flat on the night between Friday and Saturday in Lahore's Defence C police station area. The incident is the second of its kind in the area within the last four months. The woman was brought to the Cantonment Courts before Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Sagheer to record her statement, which lasted over an hour.
All unrelated persons were ordered to leave the courtroom before the proceedings began. The Defence C police registered a case against three unidentified suspects following the woman's complaint. On Sunday, Lahore police requested federal authorities to place the suspects' names on the Provisional National Identification List (PNIL), as they had fled Lahore shortly after the assault.
Police took two close relatives and a domestic servant of one suspect into custody. The vehicle allegedly used in the incident was also taken into custody. The case is being investigated jointly by the Crime Control Department, operations, and investigation wings. The incident is reminiscent of a similar case in June, where two foreign women, nationals of the Netherlands and Venezuela, were allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted in the same area, demanding ransom and subjected to sexual assault during their captivity.
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