KASUR: In another incident in Kasur, a suspect, who had molested a minor girl, was shot in his private parts during an alleged encounter in the limits of Chunian Police Station on Friday.

The suspect was seen with a 10-year-old girl at Zaheerabad Colony of Chunain through a viral video. The child was in the street when he molested her and CCTV footage captured him committing the crime. The girl child’s father had reported the matter to the police and registered an FIR.

The police claimed when they conducted a raid to arrest the suspect, he tried to attack them with his pistol that went off. As a result, his private parts were critically injured. The suspect was hospitalised in an injured condition.

According to sources in the police, he belonged to the same area as that of the child he molested. He is stated to be 27/28 years old, a daily-wager with no regular job. He is married and has a daughter.

About three weeks back, a video of a man molesting a girl child who was playing in the street of Shah Inayat Colony had gone viral, causing an outrage on social media.

DPO Essa Khan Sukhera had taken notice of the footage and directed Station House Officer Asif Javed to arrest the suspect. Three days later, the suspect, a labourer from Okara, was arrested by City police in an injured condition. He too had suffered a bullet injury to his private parts.

The police said the suspect was caught at Dhanpat Road where he pulled out a pistol to escape arrest. However, the pistol went off during a firing exchange, causing an injury to him.

Kasur has been notorious in recent years due to child molestation, rape and sexual abuse cases. In 2015, a child pornography ring was busted for involvement in a case in which over 200 children of Hussain Khanwala village were filmed while raping young boys and girls.

As many as 285 cases of child sexual abuse were recorded in this single scandal. The busted gang had men in their 20s and 30s. According to some reports, the entire village knew about the shocking activities of the gang.

In 2018, six-year-old Zainab Amin was kidnapped, raped and killed by a suspect.

In 2020, a 12-year-old boy was arrested for raping a three-year-old boy child on the rooftop of his house. In 2021, am 11-year-old boy, a seminary student, was raped by four men, aged 30 to 40, near Rohi Nullah on his way to his seminary.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2025