Day: July 5, 2022

Saddar Police Station have recovered a girl who was kidnapped from the GT Road on her way back home after appearing in her exam at a private college.

The girl was allegedly kidnapped by a former classmate of her who lived in her neighborhood. The suspect got help from his friends in kidnapping the girl.

According to the SHO of Saddar Police Station, Mehr Ismail, a 15-year-old student of a private college located on the G T Road had been on her way home from her college three days ago.

In the meantime, Zulqarnain, a resident of her area, intercepted her and told her that her father’s condition had been very critical and he had sent him to give a lift to her in his car so that she reached home earlier, he said.

Taking Zulqarnain’s words on face value, the victim sat in the car.

The car had already been carrying three people, including its driver, Ashraf. The accused allegedly took the victim to an unknown location after drugging her due to which she fell unconscious.

Police said that the medical report of the victim confirmed that she had been abused. In order to assess whether the girl had been abused by more than one person, a DNA sample was sent to a laboratory in Islamabad.

Source: The Express Tribune

PESHAWAR: A minor girl, who had gone out of her home on some errand, was found murdered in the Railway Colony area of the provincial capital on Sunday evening.

Father of the girl, 11, told the East Cantonment police that they started search for her when she did not return home after she went out to purchase something from a nearby shop.

Later, he said they found her half-naked body stuffed in a sack from a corner of the Railway Colony. He said the body bore a wound on head, adding she was strangulated with a piece of cloth.

He said the family had no enmity with anyone.

Meanwhile, the police shifted the body to a hospital for postmortem.

According to a statement, the police had also questioned some suspects from the area, while geo-fencing of the area was also being carried out. CCTV cameras footage from the area was also being scanned.

Meanwhile, the area residents and family members took the minor’s body to the Peshawar Press Club, where they placed it on the road and staged a protest to press for arrest of the murderer(s). The protesters dispersed after police assurance that the culprits would be arrested soon

Source: Dawn

According to the FIR, the woman, a resident of Munirabad, was waiting for a rickshaw at Mohal Chowk on July 1 at about 6pm. Two men, including a milk-seller, came there and convinced her to get into their car, saying they would drop her home.

The men, however, took her to an isolated place and one of them raped her at gunpoint before fleeing the scene. The suspects left the victim on the road.

No arrest had been made in this case so far.

Source: Dawn