BAHAWALPUR: A police official has been booked by the Lodhran City Police for allegedly abducting a married woman.

According to details, Shamim Mai of Mauza Dohatta in her complaint to the Lodhran City Police alleged that on May 9 when she was out of her house four car riders forcibly abducted her daughter Tahira, a mother of three.

She claimed in her complaint that she came to know that her daughter was abducted by ASI Sheikh Muhammad Asif, presently posted at the Gailiwal Police Station in Lodhran district.

According to a police spokesperson, a kidnap case had been registered against the accused ASI, and DPO Ali Bin Tariq had also closed the ASI to the district police lines. He said that an investigation against the official was ongoing.

Meanwhile, it has been learnt that after the registration of the case, the ASI has sought an interim bail before arrest from a court till June 3.

RAPE: A quack allegedly raped a married woman in her house in Chak No. 365/EB in the limits of Sahooka Police station in Vehari district on Wednesday night.

According to police sources, one S was alone in her house at Chowk Shah Junaid when suspect Y, a quack, allegedly barged into her home and assaulted her. He fled when the victim’s husband along with another man reached the house.

Police reached the scene and the Sahooka Police registered an FIR against the suspect on the victim’s complaint.

Police were yet to arrest the suspect.

Meanwhile, the Burewala Crime Control Department (CCD) claimed to have traced the suspects involved in the alleged gang-rape of a woman F in her house in Sadiq Town during a dacoity.

According to CCD officials, the suspects, whose identity was still withheld for investigation purposes, would be arrested soon.

The officials hinted that the alleged rapists, who lived in the same mohallah, worked as a bus conductor and a helper at a known transport company and were also drug peddlers and would soon be behind bars.

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2026