TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Sandalbar police claimed to have arrested on Sunday the third suspect in the case pertaining to rape of a married woman during a robbery on Tuesday last near M-4 motorway bridge on Jhang Road.

A city police spokesperson says that after his arrest, the third suspect was sent to jail on judicial remand for his identification parade. The two other suspects who were arrested earlier had already been shifted to jail for the same purpose, he added.

Complainant Adnan Maseeh had said in the FIR that he was on way to his native village, Chak 62 JB, Chanakay, on Tuesday night, along with his wife, a sweeper in a hostel of the University of Agriculture, when two armed men intercepted them.

He said the suspects, who were later joined by their third accomplice, tied him to a tree with a rope and gang-raped his wife in a sugarcane field.

City Police Officer (CPO) Sahibzada Bilal Umar has praised the police team for arrest of the third suspect.

Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, taking notice of the incident, had sent Punjab IGP Dr Usman Anwar to the the house of victim, assuring her that the culprits would be arrested soon and brought to justice.Punjab Women Protection Authority Chairperson Hina Parvez Butt had also visited Faisalabad and met with the victim.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2025