One accused in motorway rape case in police custody, investigation underway

 Police in Pakistan's Punjab Province says one of the two accused in the rape of a woman near Lahore is now in police custody and is being questioned. According to correspondent Tarhab Asghar, police sources said that the accused along with his parents and family members appeared at the Model Town police station in Lahore on Sunday morning. Not related  According to The DSP Model Town Hasnain Haider, the accused is now in the custody of the police and is being taken to the DIG headquarters. When asked about the details of the accused's arrest, he said it would be revealed shortly. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that the accused had stated in his statement that although he had been involved with the main accused in the past, he had nothing to do with the rape. Nor is the mobile number mentioned by the police officials in use. According to police sources, the DNA of the accused has been obtained and sent for analysis and more details will come to light only after the results come out.  The accused, who is in police custody, was told at a press conference of senior officials headed by the Chief Minister yesterday that he had been released on bail two weeks ago and it is likely that he was with the main accused at the time of the incident. Were present

On the other hand, Punjab Information Minister Fayyazullah Chauhan while talking to a private TV channel said that according to the information received through geo-fencing, the accused were traced.

When asked if the accused in police custody denied any wrongdoing, he said that every accused usually denies any wrongdoing. Addressing a press conference on Saturday evening, Chief Minister Usman Bazdar said that two accused involved in the incident of rape on the motorway three days ago have been identified and a reward of Rs. Will be given from The Chief Minister said that the police managed to identify the real culprits in less than 72 hours.  On the issue of the controversial statement regarding CCPO Lahore Omar Sheikh's case, the Chief Minister said that a show-cause notice has been issued to the CCPO and legal action would be taken in case of non-response within seven days. ۔ Addressing a press conference, IG Punjab Inam Ghani said that the first DNA test of the accused had been done and the samples were matched. ۔ The IG Punjab said that the police were '95-96 percent 'sure about the DNA of the co-accused and they also had the address and ID card number and hoped that they would be caught soon. Inam Ghani said that the information of the accused had reached the public due to which they must have got the information and they managed to escape. He said about one accused when his house was raided in which both he and his wife escaped but their youngest daughter was found at home. Addressing the press, the IG of Punjab said that we have done geo-fencing of the entire area. We took their data, we took as many records as the Election Commission has and from there we picked up the fingerprints as well as the rest of the DNA stuff. He said that around 12 o'clock on Friday night, based on scientific evidence, it was confirmed that it was a boy named Abid Ali, a resident of Fort Abbas, Bahawalnagar. All these things go to him.

"The only information we had was that there was a minor who had been tested in a case and it matched. We didn't have an ID card, we didn't have a number, we didn't have any family details. And our team did a good job on it overnight in Bahawalnagar. We got to this place, we got to this record and we got the whole record of this guy out there, we found out about his family, we got his ID card, we got his number and then based on that You all know how difficult it must have been to arrive at the address at night because all the offices were closed. But overnight we took all the details from there. ”The IG Punjab said that when we matched the details we already had, we found out that there were four telephone numbers in the boy's name which he used at different times. I had closed. But then we came to another number that was in use but not in his name. Geofencing also confirmed our concerns with this number. That's how we got to his partner. We can say with 95-96% certainty that his telephone is also present there at the moment. From this telephone, we got his address and CNIC, etc. ”Police were fully prepared at 12 noon on Saturday to raid their homes and arrest them. Our team went there but he was not in Lahore. Qila Sattar Shah is a village in Sheikhupura District, Thana Factory Area. We found out he lived there, we found him. At the same time, the co-accused was a resident of Ali Town, Qila Sattar Shah, Sheikhupura. That's all we got. We raided both places. As word of our raid surfaced, the suspects became wary. ‘

"We went there in plain clothes but since their house was in the fields, they saw a vehicle parked there, so the accused Abid and his wife fled," police said. They were not found but we found their house and one of their daughters there. All his records, marriage certificates,s and other documents came to us and were verified. The other accused is Waqarul Hassan, a resident of Ali Town. When we raided his house, he too had fled because things had gone out.

The motorway rape incident has sparked outrage across the country and on Saturday there were demonstrations in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad in which a large number of people participated.

Demonstrators condemned the behavior of CCPO Lahore in particular and demanded his resignation. He also called for adequate training for the police and judiciary to better handle international cases of sexual violence and ensure the safety of women during the investigation and trial of cases.

Earlier, Dr. Shahbaz Gul, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Political Relations, said that the DNA of the accused in the motorway rape case had been matched and his arrest would be made soon. In this regard, he said that the Punjab Chief Minister was "with the IG and CCPO" till 4 pm and "the Chief Minister has personally supervised the entire case." There were reports that the police had matched the DNA of the accused, but official sources could not confirm this. After the news broke on the media, Inspector General of Punjab Inam Ghani said that no accused has been arrested in the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway rape case. A statement sent to the media from the IG Punjab's office said that the news on various TV channels and social media regarding the arrest of the accused was false and untrue. IG Punjab has said that he is personally monitoring the investigation of this case and will inform the media about any success. "Such unconfirmed news not only affects the case but is also misleading to the public. The pictures of the accused and the woman being shared on social media are also false and fake," he added. I request the media representatives not to run any news without confirmation and I also request the people to have faith in us. We will soon arrest the culprits and bring them to justice. On the other hand, Provincial Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan in a statement on Saturday morning expressed hope that the case would be brought to a logical conclusion in a few hours and the rapists would be arrested. Earlier, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed, while addressing the concluding session of a training workshop for judges of commercial courts at a local hotel in Lahore, expressed deep concern over the incident on the motorway and said that it was a shame that There was no security system or mechanism on the highway. Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed lamented that innocent passengers face serious crimes on the highway. "The police system is in the hands of unprofessional and irresponsible people who have destroyed the law and order of the country," he said.

According to journalist Ibad-ul-Haq, the Chief Justice of Pakistan assured that "the lives and property of the people are not safe as a result of political interference in the police." It is a sign of a decline in the system and political interference. The Chief Justice of Pakistan urged the government to wake up and restore the credibility of the police department immediately. Chief Justice of Pakistan urged the police to look into their own departmental matters. In his address, the Chief Justice of Pakistan said that the country is seeing that the police has become politicized. Justice Gulzar Ahmed warned that the government or any political person should not interfere in the police department under any circumstances. No police force can function professionally due to political interference. According to Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, law and order is the primary responsibility of the government and a transparent police system is the need of the hour. He assured that the police force could not function without discipline. Unless you have professionalism in the police. Until then, the safety of lives and property of the people cannot be ensured. For this, the police must be freed from the shackles of politics.  Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar raped a woman near a motorway in the Gujjarpura area of ​​Lahore.And a five-member committee has been formed to investigate the robbery case and prevent such incidents in the future, which will be headed by the Punjab Law Minister. Apart from them, the team will include Additional Chief Secretary, Punjab Home Department, Additional IG Special Branch Punjab, DIG Investigation Punjab, and Director General Punjab Forensic Science Agency. Meanwhile, Inspector General of Punjab Police Inam Ghani has also formed a six-member special investigation team headed by DIG Investigation Lahore, Prince Sultan, which includes officers from various police units. The police team has been instructed that its chief can avail the services of forensic experts if he so desires. The members of this team include SSP Investigation Lahore Zeeshan Asghar, RO Special Branch Lahore Jahanzeb Nazir, ROCTD Lahore Naseebullah Khan, SP CIA Lahore Asim Iftikhar, Incharge Gender Crimes Civil Lines Lahore Fiza Azam. Are Police have registered a case and arrested 12 suspects. The incident took place between Tuesday and Wednesday night when two men allegedly grabbed a woman in a car parked on the side of the road waiting for help and raped her in front of their children in a nearby field. After the case was registered on Wednesday evening, the matter was discussed on Pakistani media and social media and the performance of the police was criticized. Inam Ghani, who took over as Punjab Inspector General of Police a day before the incident, said that since the initial investigation, 12 suspects have been arrested so far, while records of 70 people who have already been arrested have also been taken. There is a criminal record. According to correspondent Tarhab Asghar, he said that the DIG police was monitoring the case while 20 teams were working on the case and as a result of geo-fencing, they had succeeded in identifying the village. Where the accused belong. According to Inam Ghani, the police investigation team has found evidence that will help us reach the accused. At the same time, the woman herself has revealed some of the identities of the accused. Geo-fencing of the scene and area has also been done and we have even reached the village where the accused belong. Our only goal at the moment is to arrest the accused as soon as possible so that the woman and her children can improve their mental condition. ”According to police sources, the suspects went for DNA samples and the accused When the glass of his car was broken, his blood was also found on the door, samples of which have also been sent for forensic examination. Earlier, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs Shahbaz Gul said in a tweet that the administration was busy tracing the culprits with the help of various methods of interrogation and the CCPO Lahore itself was leading the investigation team. Are According to journalist Ibad-ul-Haq, the FIR lodged at Gujjarpura police station in Lahore said that the car of a relative of the petitioner, a resident of Gujranwala, had run out of petrol near the forest and she was waiting for help. According to the FIR, the petitioner's Aziza said that while she was waiting for petrol, two armed men between the ages of 30 and 35 came, took her and her children out of the vehicle, raped them and raped them. They snatched cash and jewelry and fled. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar has taken notice of the incident and demanded a report from IG Police Punjab. According to the FIR, the incident took place around 3 pm and a relative of the victim lodged a case at Gujjarpura police station at 10 am on Wednesday. The plaintiff told police that when he reached the spot where he stopped due to running out of petrol, he saw that the windshield of the car was broken and there were bloodstains on it. I saw them coming with children from the forest. On the other hand, the Motorway Police has clarified that the place where the woman was raped is not within the purview of the Motorway Police. According to the spokesperson, Ring Road Motorway is not within the jurisdiction of the police. PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said that she was heartbroken to hear of the incident of rape and desecration on the motorway. All those involved in this barbaric act must be punished and set a precedent. This is not a trivial matter. Remember, it is the responsibility of all of us to fight oppression and degradation of social values. ”One user named Soha wrote,“ One news after another in Pakistan. Rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Karachi. A woman was gang-raped in front of her children on a motorway in Lahore. So is Pakistan safe for women? ”Another user wrote:“ When will it be safe for women to travel alone, to live alone, and to breathe alone? This is a basic right of every citizen. Would you please allow us? "A terrible day for humanity," wrote a user named Rada. An 86-year-old grandmother raped in India and a five-year-old girl raped and murdered in Pakistan. Just read the news of the rape of a woman on the Lahore Motorway. I feel scared and angry. Is there a price to pay for being a woman?