KASUR: Police on Tuesday sent four people, out of 11, wanted in a gang-rape case, to the district jail for an identification parade.

The Sheikhum police booked an ASI for lodging a gang-rape case after five weeks of the incident on Monday.

The ASI was posted at the same police station and a case under section 155-C (breach or neglect of any provision of law) of thee Police Order of 2002 was registered against him.

The FIR states ASI Muhammad Rizwan showed her the gate when the survivor went to the police station to get her complaint registered and later slapped her when she insisted on action.

The IGP ordered an inquiry to fix responsibility for delay in registering the case.

The additional inspector general was monitoring the investigations. According to the survivor, she was traveling to Haveli Pharianwali with three of his relatives on two motorcycles.

Near Pharianwali, their motorcycle broke down, when three suspects held them at gunpoint. One of the rapists introduced himself as a cop and took them to the nearby orchards, tied three of her male relatives with ropes and took her to a cottage. Later, seven more people joined them and all of them gang-raped her. The suspects also claimed that the accused also shot footage of the incident.

The Kasur police denied the involvement of any cop in the incident. All the suspects in the FIR are unidentified. Police, however, denied that the arrests were being made to satisfy the high ups.

Source: Dawn