LAHORE: Three men allegedly gang-raped a girl in Lahore Cantt when she reached here from Karachi on the marriage proposal of a boy (of Lahore) while playing a famous online PUBG video game.

A resident of Quetta Town Society of Karachi, the girl was first lured and raped by her ‘friend player’ ‘H’ in a local hotel and then by two other suspects in a villa on Sarwar Road. The police registered a gang rape case against the three suspects while nominating them in the first information report.

The girl told the police that she used to play online video game PUBG in Karachi.

Meanwhile, ‘H’, who was also player of the same online game in Lahore, became her friend and he proposed her.

She said on Nov 23 she reached Lahore by train alone and ‘H’ took her to a hotel where he allegedly raped her for three days. When she asked for marriage, he refused and dropped her at the Lahore railways station and fled, the girl said.

She added that two young men ‘Ha’ and ‘W’ met her at the railway station and offered her a job. They took her by a car to a villa on Sarwar Road (Cantt) where they gang-raped her, she alleged.

She said the hotel manager and owner also facilitated the suspected rapists.

On her written complaint, the police registered a gang-rape case against the suspects and sent a team for their arrest.

The girl was referred to hospital for medical examination.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2021