LAHORE: Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested one of the three suspects who allegedly gang raped two girls at a house in Defence C area.

The alleged rapist was arrested while his two accomplices fled the scene and the police teams were conducting raids for their arrest.

The chief minister and the IGP took notice of the incident and directed the Lahore CCPO to ensure arrest of two other suspected rapists.

A police official said a girl (N) was living with her two sisters at a rented house in Tibba Gowava village of Defence. He said on the day of the incident, their friend was also present there when three alleged rapists entered there and they raped ‘N’ and her friend.

The others made a call to a relative Nasir Ali who informed police about a ‘scuffle’ between the girls and the suspects. A team of the Dolphin police, he said, rushed to the place and arrested one of the suspects while two others had already fled with the mobile phones of the girls and some money.

The police official said the arrested suspect told the interrogators that the girls had called them for ‘illicit relations’ for money -- a charge the girls denied.

The Defence C police registered a gang rape case while nominating all the three suspects in the FIR and shifted the girls to the hospital for medical examination. He said police had seized the mobile phone of the suspect for forensic analysis.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2021