MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH/SHEIKHUPURA: Three cases of sexual abuse of children surfaced in Multan, Muzaffargarh and Sheikhupura areas while five suspects were arrested in two of the cases on Thursday.

In the first incident, a child was sexually abused in the Mumtazabad area of Multan while police claimed to have arrested three suspects involved in the case and making video of the act.

A resident of Mumtazabad submitted a complaint to police that some people had raped his son and also made a video. The suspects were blackmailing him with the threat to sell the video in the market, he added.

The police, after lodging the case, arrested three of the nominated suspects.

According to an official handout, City Police Officer Azhar Ikram while taking action on the complaint directed the Mumtazabad police to arrest the remaining suspects without delay. He also constituted a police team that was conducting raids to arrest the remaining suspects.

Videos were made in two cases; five suspects arrested

In the second incident, a 12-year-old boy was gang-raped at village Dabbi Shah of Muzaffargarh and police arrested two persons allegedly involved in the crime and recording its footage on mobile phones.

A man told Mahmood Kot police his son went to the village shop on Aug 9 where the two men asked him to accompany them to the nearby fields for picking dates. When he went there, both the suspects held him at knifepoint in the sugarcane field and raped him. He alleged the suspects had uploaded the video to others’ mobile phones besides selling it in the market.

The complainant said the police had delayed registering the case.

Talking to Dawn, District Police Officer Muhammad Awais said the case had been registered and both suspects had been arrested.

In the third incident, a 13-year-old boy was allegedly molested by three people in Pathan Colony in the Ferozewala Police Station area in Sheikhupura district.

The victim was going home when the suspects forcibly took him to a barren place and raped him. They escaped after leaving the boy in an unconscious condition.

Ferozewala police registered a case on the report of the victim’s father and started investigation with no arrest so far.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2015

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