According to reports, the wife named Rani Bibi was gang-raped by five unidentified people at gunpoint in front of her husband in Ferozewala, Sheikhupura District as the couple was returning home.
According to DPO Sheikhupura Salahuddin, the couple had arrived in Lahore from Rawalpindi on September 16 in search of a job. After running out of money, the husband and wife were sitting outside the Minar-e-Pakistan when a conman tricked them into coming with him to his village.
The couple said the suspect lured them with the promise to find them jobs and a place to stay. However, when they reached Kala Shah Kaku, they were held hostage, and four to five men, according to the woman, gang-raped her in her husband’s presence.
The Lahore motorway gang-rape victim was blamed by many people including the Lahore CCPO Umar Shaikh for traveling alone at night with many bashing women in general for having too much freedom.
However, this incident involves a woman getting gang-raped at gunpoint in front of her husband near Kala Shah Kaku in Ferozewala, Sheikhupura District.
This means she was traveling with a Mehram male and the incident still occurred leaving all those previous statements about traveling alone invalid.
The police said a case has been registered and investigations are underway while six suspects had been arrested in connection with the crime. The woman’s medical test has been conducted and her DNA samples have been collected by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, said the Sheikhupura DPO.
This incident took place shortly after the infamous motorway rape case which sparked outrage across the country. In that case, a woman had been traveling on the Lahore-Sialkot highway when her car ran out of fuel at the Gujjarpura section of the motorway.
There had been no reply from the motorway police helpline, and the woman had sent her location to her relative who lived in Gujranwala.
In this time, two men approached her car, broke the window, and raped the woman in front of her children before fleeing with her belongings. Reportedly, they snatched her purse carrying Rs100,000 in cash, one bracelet, car registration papers, and three ATM cards.