TOBA TEK SINGH: Two minor sisters employed as maids in a house at Faisalabad’s Madina Town locality were recovered by a joint team of Child Protection and Welfare bureau and police in a raid on Monday.

Police have arrested five members of a family where the girls were employed.

A first information report was registered on the complaint of child protection officer Robina Iqbal Cheema under sections 328A, 344 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code and section 34 of The Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act 2004.

As per the FIR, Eiman Fatima (11) and Zohra Bibi (8), daughters of Awais of Gujranwala, had been doing job for the last two months against salaries of Rs4,000 and Rs3,000 per month where they were badly beaten over minor issues with sticks by their employers [three brothers] Waqar, Bilal and Abdullah and their wives Amna, Sidra and Hamsa, respectively.

The complainant said their were multiple marks of healed and fresh injuries to their body parts and both were admitted to DHQ hospital.

Police have arrested five out of six suspects and are conducting raids to arrest the sixth [Amna].

HELD FOR INCEST: Faisalabad’s Sandal Bar police arrested on Monday a man of Chak 61JB Tibbi Asgharabad for allegedly raping his daughter.

Complainant Hina Bibi, wife of Nawaz, claimed in the FIR registered under section 376 of PPC that her mother had died and her younger sister was residing with her father Javed Iqbal who repeatedly raped her as a result she conceived. Police are investigating the matter.

ACCIDENT: Three passengers received critical wounds and as many others minor wounds as a Faisalabad-bound van overturned late on Sunday night on motorway M-4’s Shorkot-Khanewal section near Shamkot interchange after one of its tyres burst.

The critically injured - Sarwari Bibi (60), Muhammad Fiaz (32) and his wife Shabana (26) - were shifted to Khanewal DHQ hospital.

Published in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023