MUZAFFARGARH: Four boys who were working as trainee embroiderers at a boutique centre in Jatoi, were allegedly raped by their masters.

According to the parents of the rape survivors, the suspects administered them tea spiked with sedatives.

When the boys passed out, the suspects raped them at the workplace for 24 hours. One of the boys, when gained senses, he called his parents. The police arrested the suspects and registered a case against them under section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The complainants, however, appealed to District Police Officer Raza Safdar Kazmi to add Section 376/3 to the case as well. Police said that two main suspects had been arrested.

The alleged rape survivors were enrolled at the centre as apprentices in Jatoi and they are all from Jatoi Janobi Bakht Ali.

AUCTION: The auction of land belonging to former MPA Bilal Mustafa Khar, son of ex-governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, will be held on March 13 since he is a proclaimed offender in a murder case that occurred in 2014.

The auction of 233 kanal land at Khar Gharbi will take place at the municipal committee of Sanawan.

Published in Dawn, March 11th, 2023

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