LAHORE: A young girl was allegedly raped, while a woman died by “suicide”, in separate incidents in Manawan area here on Sunday.

A police official, quoting the girl ‘A’, says some unknown men took her in a car to a place near Ring Road where one of them raped her.

The suspects later dropped her along a road and sped away. The official says Manawan police have registered a case against the unidentified men and started investigation into the matter.

In the other incident, the police official says that a married woman Mehak allegedly took her own life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her in-law’s house.

He says that after being informed of the incident by the woman’s husband, Iqbal, the police shifted her body to the city morgue for the postmortem examination and started further investigations.

In Raiwind police precincts, the body of a man carrying torture marks was found packed in a sack. The police, on being informed of the body, shifted it to the city morgue for autopsy.

To a question, the police official said that the man was later identified as Naveed Farooq, a resident of Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir.

The police say the victim was living in the jurisdiction of Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Area police station and had gone missing under mysterious circumstances a couple of days back.The police official says that the forensic and other police experts are trying to collect evidence to trace the killer(s).

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2024