LAHORE: Police on Monday reportedly arrested one of the prime suspects in the gang-rape case of a young Azeri woman in Lahore.

The police rounded the suspect up when he tried to get bail from a court in the case he was nominated in along with his two accomplices. The suspect was shifted to the police station for further interrogation.

Lahore DIG Investigation Zeeshan Raza confirmed to Dawn that one of the key suspects wanted in the gang-rape case of an Azeri woman had been arrested. He said two other suspects had also been identified and police were conducting raids to arrest them.

“We are investigating the case in the light of the victim woman’s statement she had given to police,” he said, adding that the medical report confirmed she was subjected to the sexual assault.

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To a question, the DIG said the police had got the details of another suspect who had facilitated her in Lahore.

The DIG added that as per the woman, she had travelled to Pakistan for the garments business and was later trapped by the three male suspects she nominated in the FIR.

Earlier, the woman recorded her statement before a judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts.

She was allegedly gang-raped by three men in a rented flat of a private housing society near Raiwind on the night between Friday and Saturday.

The woman was brought to the court under tight security to record her statement before Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Sagheer.

Before the proceedings, the magistrate ordered all unrelated persons to leave the courtroom. The statement continued for more than an hour.

The Defence C police have already registered a case against three unidentified suspects on the woman’s complaint.

A police official said the location of one of the suspects had been traced to Sialkot.

Police also took two close relatives and a domestic servant of one of the suspects into custody.

It was the second such case in which a foreign woman was reportedly gang-raped in the Defence C Police Station area during the last four months.

In June, two foreign women, nationals of the Netherlands and Venezuela, were allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted in the Defence C police area.

According to the FIR, the women were abducted by five suspects, including a close relative of a senior political personality, who demanded ransom and subjected them to sexual assault during their captivity.

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2026