LAHORE, Oct 19: Another accused in the Sonia Naz rape case on Wednesday surrendered before the Lahore police. A senior police officer told Dawn that SP Abdullah Khalid’s co-accused, Jamshed Chishti, has surrendered. Earlier on Tuesday, Abdullah Khalid courted arrest after his bail was cancelled by a Faisalabad court.

The accused have been handed over to a three-man committee, which has been set up to investigate the charges. The team comprises three SPs — Maj Mubashar, Imtiaz Habib and Bilal Kamyana. The arrest has been made in a case registered by the Sattukatla police on the orders of the Supreme Court.

The victim had submitted in a complaint that on May 3 she had just left her Jauhar Town house in Lahore when four men held her up at gunpoint. She said the men bundled her in a car and blindfolded her and after a four-hour drive she found herself in a room where they removed black strip from her eyes.

After a detention of around three or four days, the victim said, Faisalabad investigation police SP Khalid Abdullah came there and tortured her. “He hit my shoe on my face saying that he would keep doing so in reaction to the petitions I had filed against him in court.”

She further alleged that the SP tore her clothes and attempted to rape her. On failure, she added, the SP ordered his two men to rape her. She said one of them was Jamshed Chishti.