A taxi driver was arrested for raping a woman in front of her son in Attock, the Rawalpindi police confirmed on Tuesday. Iftikhar was arrested after a special police team was formed by the Rawalpindi police. A case has been registered against him. In the First Information Report (FIR) lodged with Naseerabad police, the victim said that she was taking her son to Attock for spiritual treatment as he was not feeling well.
She had hired a taxi to get to Attock and back home in Naseerabad. The woman said that on her way back to Rawalpindi, the taxi driver stopped the vehicle at a deserted place and grabbed her at gunpoint and sexually abused her. She said the accused threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the incident, adding that the accused also threatened to kill his son and snatched his mobile phone.
It was also reported that the accused left the woman and her son on the roadside in the area of Chowki Hamida and fled from there. The Naseerabad police registered an FIR after the initial medical examination report. However, the main suspect is yet to be arrested.
Six men gang-rape woman in Punjab
Six men gang-raped a woman in Punjab’s Jaranwala city on Wednesday, as per police, as she was expecting another van after the bus she was traveling in broke down. The woman was standing at a stop when a car stopped there and offered to give her a lift. Afterward, the men proceeded to drug the lady and rape her within the car, said police. The men threw then a woman in a nearby field before fleeing. Police said they have registered a case against the suspects but thus far, no one has been arrested for the crime.
CM Punjab Usman Buzdar‘s notice on Woman’s rape case
While taking notice of the incident, Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar directed RPO Sheikhupura to arrest the suspects as soon as possible. The incident comes after the Lahore motorway gang-rape case caused widespread anger and condemnation last month. The police said that two armed men had raped a woman stranded together with her children on the motorway. Afterward, they robbed her cash and other valuables. The woman, a resident of Gujranwala, was on her way back to the town from Lahore’s ring road at 1:30 am on Tuesday night.