DIJKOT: A woman and a 12-year-old girl were sexually assaulted in separate incidents in Khurrianwala on Wednesday.

According to the police, Shah Mohammad Qasim, a resident of Faisal Town, filed a report stating that his 12-year-old daughter went to a shop from where she was lured away by Arshad Butt.

“He took her to a room in the house where he sexually assaulted her. Local people gathered after hearing her screams but the suspect fled.”

Jhang Bazaar police registered a case against the suspect under Section 376 (Punishment for rape) of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and raided several places to arrest him.

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Separately, Saghir Ahmed informed the police that his cousin, wife of Latif, was on her way from home to her uncle’s house on Bakarmandi Road when four unidentified persons in a rickshaw abducted her.

Ahmed said, “The suspects took her to Sudhar Bypass, where they tried to molest her and upon resistance attacked her with sticks and kicks, and tore her clothes.”

The complainant said the abductors then raped the woman and handed her over to an unknown couple who continued to torture her.

However, the victim managed to escape later.

Source: Express Tribune