KASUR: Phoolnagar police booked a school principal on Sunday for killing a schoolteacher and her mother for refusing his marriage proposal at village Dina Nath.

According to the FIR, the suspect Hammad Raza, the principal of a local private school, had sent a marriage proposal through his parents to the family of teacher, Asma, but they rejected it. This annoyed Raza and, along with three accomplices, broke into Asma’s house on Saturday night. He opened fire on Asma, leaving her seriously injured. When her mother, Hajran Bibi, rushed to save her daughter she was also shot at and injured. Both Asma and her mother succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital.

KIDNAP: A-Division police have recovered a five-year-old girl, arresting her kidnapper who was the worker of her father.

Zainab, daughter of Ijaz, was kidnapped on April 19 when she was going to her tuition centre at Jinnah Colony.

The suspect, Tahir, a resident of Jhang, had been a worker at catering service of Ijaz for the last 15 years. Just before kidnapping the girl, Tahir had withdrawn Rs40,000 that he had been depositing with Ijaz for months. On April 19, Tahir vanished with the minor girl. Police traced the mobile phone data that showed several calls made from Faisalabad, Karachi and Skardu, raising fears that the suspect might have sold the girl.

A police team, headed by Inspector Malik Tariq, traced the suspect in district Gujranwala and conducted a raid, recovering the girl and arresting Tahir. Police are looking into the matter to ascertain the motive behind the kidnapping.

GANG RAPE: A 20-year-old girl was gang-raped at village Lambay Jageer in the limits of Phoolnagar Police Station.

The girl, daughter of a milkman, was grazing her cattle in the fields outside the village when three suspects took her to their outhouse and subjected her to gang rape. Police have registered a case with no arrest so far.

Published in Dawn, April 27th, 2015

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