Category: Crime

Haripur police have arrested five Afghan refugees on Friday for allegedly gang-raping a 21-year-old Afghan woman in the Khalabat Township area, media reports have stated. 

According to police, the woman lives in a rented house in New Abadi Sector 3 on a valid Pakistani visa while her husband works abroad. On Thursday evening, she was walking towards Afghan Camp No 16 to meet relatives when a man who introduced himself as Bacha dragged her into nearby fields and raped her.

The woman told police that four of his accomplices soon arrived and also assaulted her one after another. She said one of the attackers slapped and punched her when she tried to resist.

Police identified the suspects as Nadi, Rozi, Khan Sher, Javed, and Naseer. The victim stated that all of them were Afghan refugees.

“The initial medical report conducted at the Trauma Centre Haripur has confirmed the offence of rape, while the detailed forensic report will follow from FSL,” Khalabat SHO Inspector Sidiq Shah told a digital media outlet.

He added that all five suspects have been arrested and booked under Section 375-A of the Pakistan Penal Code. Police will present them before a local magistrate on Saturday to seek physical remand.

A man in Model Town Lahore allegedly stole gold jewelry belonging to his own wife, police said, adding that the suspect has been arrested.

According to a private news channel, the woman who lives in Model Town married Faisal Javed from Depalpur two years ago after meeting him on social media. Their friendship eventually turned into marriage.

When the wife returned from a visit to her sister’s home, she found that gold jewelry valued at Rs 30 million was gone, she has told the police. She immediately reported the incident to the authorities.

At the Model Town Police Station, a theft case involving 80 tolas of gold has been filed. In her statement, the woman noted there were no signs of break-in or damage to the house, yet the jewelry had disappeared.

Investigators initially focused on family members and later questioned the husband, who confessed to the crime within hours. 

Police said the stolen gold was recovered from the house after the husband pointed out where he had kept it. He was taken into custody and legal proceedings have begun.

A suspected member of a child abuse ring, accused of targeting minors for nearly a decade, has been arrested in Karachi.

According to police, the suspect, a fruit vendor, was arrested from Karachi’s Qayyumabad with the help of locals.

DIG South Syed Asad Raza told a private news channel that the man was in custody while an accomplice of his had been identified and efforts for his arrest were underway.

Investigators revealed that they had obtained video evidence against the suspect, which showed multiple assaults involving young boys and girls. Although the exact number of victims is undetermined, authorities fear that it could exceed 100.

“Police have recovered a mobile phone from his custody with hundreds of videos filmed in his room,” DIG Raza confirmed, adding that the suspect was being interrogated.

The accused first moved to Qayyumabad in 2016 and began to lure children in 2019. At first, he ran a grocery store, and then a juice cart.  The case surfaced when one of his alleged victims managed to secure a USB drive from him.

According to DIG Raza, the matter reached authorities after the child took the USB to a video shop to download music.

The shop owner discovered explicit footage on the device and informed locals, who apprehended and assaulted the suspect before handing him over to police. “A USB and the mobile phone are in police custody, and contain many such videos,” the DIG said.

Police also contacted the victims’ parents after the revelations were made. The father of two girls, ages ten and twelve, who had been complaining of body pain prior to reporting the abuse, filed one of the three formal complaints against the suspect.

According to another FIR, which was submitted by a labourer, on September 4, his 10-year-old sister was beaten inside the suspect’s house, and the incident was captured on camera.

A third complainant reported a seven-year-old daughter had remained silent for a week while suffering from pain.

A special investigation team led by Defence DSP Dr Saifullah has been constituted to probe the case. It includes the SHO and SIO concerned as well as the SIO of the Women Police Station. 

Police are using all available resources and submitting daily progress reports.

Vehari Additional Sessions Judge Yasir Hayat on Wednesday sentenced a man to death on two counts and fined him Rs500,000 for raping and blackmailing two female university students. 

The court also awarded a two-year jail term and Rs200,000 fine to his accomplice.

The prosecution said Hamid Rasool lured the two students, identified as F and S, last year with the help of his co-accused Asif Tarar by offering them an online job. Hamid raped both victims, recorded videos and blackmailed them.

On the complaint of the victims, Vehari police registered two separate FIRs, 427/24 and 428/24, and arrested both men. Investigators later submitted the challan in court.

Announcing the verdict, the judge ordered that the fine be paid to the victims. In case of default, the convicts will face an additional six-month imprisonment.

The statement of a suspect confessing to molesting a female in a street has surfaced online, stating that all five of his fingers got broken in an incident while he was attempting to escape on a motorbike during a Crime Control Department (CCD) raid.

The suspect, named Asadullah, a resident of Toba Tek Singh, said, “CCD raided when looking for me, and out of fear I sped the motorbike up; however, it hit a pole, and all five of my fingers got broken as well as my hand.”

Seeking an apology from women, he said that he will not carry out such an act in the future and advised people to show respect towards females.

Purported viral CCTV footage of the suspect had surfaced online, showing him appearing at the scene while riding his bike and groping a woman, leaving her visibly shocked.

The viral video circulating on social media platforms, particularly on X (formerly Twitter), had sparked uproar online, with netizens urging relevant authorities to take strict action and arrest the suspect.

A week ago, a man accused of molesting a woman on Sialkot’s Pasrur Road was injured after accidentally shooting himself in his private parts during a police chase.

 
In a video, he confessed to a similar incident six months ago, and revealed that he had accidentally shot himself in his genitals during a consequent police chase. “I seek an apology from my sister [the victim] as well as from CCD [Crime Control Department] and the government. I will not perform any such act in the future,” the suspect said.

A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed against a man in Lahore for playing the popular Punjabi song “Jhanjhar di pawan chankar” at high volume in his car.

The FIR, lodged on Monday at Nawab Town police station, states that the song was being played loudly in a silver 2012 Corolla GLI, which was stopped “with great difficulty” at a police checkpoint. Th incident occurred on Sunday at 08:45 am while the complainant, a police officer, along with other personnel, was on patrol.

“A person was taken out of the car who identified himself as Danish Ali,” the FIR read, adding that when the man was asked about loudly playing the song, he replied that “This is my habit, as I often play songs from time to time”.

The FIR further noted that Danish had violated Section 6 of the Punjab Sound System (Regulation) Act by playing music at such a high volume.

The song in question was sung by the legendary singer Madam Noor Jehan, also known as Malika-e-Tarannum, the Melody Queen of Pakistan.

Police in the Gizri area of Karachi arrested a sweeper for raping a seven-year-old student at a government boys and girls school located in PNT Colony.

The incident reportedly took place on August 4 between 7:45 AM and 12:15 PM. The victim, a KG-2 student, identified suspect Deepak Kumar in front of the school principal. Her father later filed a formal complaint.

Gizri police registered FIR No. 495/2025 under Section 376 and took the suspect into custody. The case was filed on September 7 after the victim’s father contacted the authorities.

Police have now handed over the investigation to the relevant unit for further inquiries.

A TikToker has been booked under Section 26A of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), 2016, for spreading fake news about “flooding in Jhelum villages due to a breach in embankment” of the Mangla Dam.

According to the FIR, the complainant on Monday came across a video by TikToker Malik Nabeel, a resident of Jhelum, in which he claimed that several villages in Jhelum had been destroyed due to a “breach in embankment at Mangla”.

The accused went on to claim that water had also entered Jhelum city and inflicted heavy damage, the complainant said.

“The video has caused fear and panic among the public,” the FIR read, adding that the suspect committed an offence under Section 26A of PECA 2016 by spreading false news through social media.

While an arrest has not yet taken place, it merits a mention that Section 26A of PECA pertains to the dissemination of fake news, causing panic or disorder.

“Whoever intentionally disseminates, publicly exhibits, or transmits any information through any information system that he knows or has reason to believe to be false or fake or likely to cause or create a sense of fear, panic, or disorder or unrest in the general public or society shall be punished with imprisonment, which may extend up to three years or with a fine, which may extend to two million rupees or with both,” reads the provision.

Bahawalnagar police have arrested two men on Sunday for raping and robbing a transgender person in Allama Iqbal Town of the city’s Marot area.

According to reports, the victim, who earns a living by dancing at weddings, was at home on September 9 when two men from Chak 314-HR arrived at her door. They asked her to perform at a wedding, but then attacked her.

One of the men raped the transgender while the other stood guard. When neighbors rushed to the house after hearing her screams, the suspects snatched her wallet containing cash and documents along with her mobile phone and fled.

Police said they traced and arrested the suspects shortly after the incident.