{
  "id": 10676996,
  "title": "Lahore court grants police 6-day remand of two suspects in Azeri woman's gang-rape case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/lahore-court-grants-police-6-day-remand-of-two-suspects-in-azeri",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T11:23:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn - Pakistan",
    "slug": "dawn-pakistan",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2033513/lahore-court-grants-police-6-day-remand-of-two-suspects-in-azeri-womans-gang-rape-case"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Lahore court permits police to detain two suspects for six days in an alleged gang-rape case involving an Azeri woman. The 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman travelled to Pakistan for business and claims she was gang-raped by three men in a rented flat near Raiwind on the night of Friday and Saturday. One suspect has already been arrested, while another was apprehended on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Zeeshan Raza stated that the third suspect has been identified, and authorities are conducting raids to locate him. On Tuesday, the two already arrested men appeared before Magistrate Azhar Mahmood at Cantonment Courts, who granted them a six-day physical remand for further interrogation, evidence collection, and DNA examination. The incident follows another gang-rape of a foreign woman in the Defence C police station area, where two Dutch and Venezuelan women were allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted in June.",
  "summary": "LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday allowed Defence C police a six-day physical remand of two suspects in a case against them over the alleged gang-rape of an Azeri woman. 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 located near Raiwind on the night between Friday…",
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    "Lahore court grants 6-day remand to two suspects in Azeri woman's gang-rape case.",
    "20-year-old Azerbaijani woman claims gang-rape by three men.",
    "Police identify third suspect, conducting raids to locate him."
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        "title": "Lahore court grants police 6-day remand of two suspects in Azeri woman's gang-rape case",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/lahore-court-grants-police-6-day-remand-of-two-suspects-in-azeri-10677315",
        "published": "2026-09-29T11:23:47.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}