Woman raped during robbery in Jhang

TOBA TEK SINGH: Three robbers looted a house in Jhang late on Saturday in Siddiq Park locality, with two of them also raping a woman in the house. According to an FIR by the Satellite Town police, three bandits wearing track suits forced their entry into the house of a labourer and forced him to open a locked room. When his wife was opening the lock, they overpowered her and took her into the same room where two of them gang-raped her. They took away Rs25,000, a maund of wheat flour, seven poultry birds, three unstitched ladies suits, and a stainless steel jug.

Jhang District Police Officer Malik Tariq Mahboob visited the house and assured the family that the suspects would be traced at the earliest. He told reporters that a team of expert policemen had been formed, headed by Sadar circle DSP Aslam Dogar, and the investigation had been started by obtaining footage from CCTV cameras of shops and houses in different areas of the adjacent localities. He said that he himself would monitor the probe.

Source: Dawn