Lahore magistrate sends female suspect to jail on judicial remand in Azeri woman's rape case
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday sent a woman suspect to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in connection with a case of an Azeri woman’s rape. The 20-year-old Azerbaijan national had travelled to Pakistan for business purposes and was allegedly gang-raped by three men in a rented flat of a private housing society near Raiwind on the night between Sept 25 and Sept 26. Two of those men had…
A 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman, who had traveled to Pakistan for business, was accused of being gang-raped by three men in a rented flat near Raiwind on September 25-26. Two of the suspects were arrested and initially given a six-day physical remand on Tuesday. The third suspect appeared before Magistrate Azhar Mahmood on Saturday, who ordered her to serve a 14-day judicial remand until October 17.
The victim, in her statement, mentioned that she had met two women before encountering the accused trio at a house in Bahria Town. She claimed the men allegedly raped her after threatening her with dire consequences if she approached the police. During the incident, the victim stated that the men took her handbag containing Rs200,000, an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and another mobile phone.
This case marks the second instance of a foreign woman allegedly being gang-raped in the Defence C police station area within the last four months.
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