Category: Crime

Days after two children died and their brother fell ill after consuming food from a restaurant located in Lahore, Police have arrested the owner along with the kitchen staff.

According to police, on the night of August 16, the family dined at a restaurant; however, shortly after reaching home, the three children of the family became unwell. 

The family rushed the children to Sheikh Zayed Hospital, where doctors said that the children had severe complications from consuming possibly contaminated food. 

Despite medical treatment, two daughters, Tahreem and Arha, tragically passed away on the nights of August 18 and 19, respectively.

On the complaint of the children’s father Muhammad Azeem, a case was registered at Sattokatla police station. The complainant held the restaurant responsible for serving hazardous food items that allegedly caused the fatalities.

Citing investigators, reports say that food samples from the restaurant had been sent for laboratory tests to determine the cause of the children’s illness.

According to police, forensic and health authorities were working in coordination to establish whether the food contained toxins, harmful chemicals, or was contaminated due to improper storage.

A man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Chak 24-BC, Bahawapur, was killed during a police encounter on Friday, according to media reports.

The suspect, Ali Hamza, had previously worked at a thread factory in Lahore, where he was reportedly accused of similar assaults on young girls but had evaded arrest. He had returned to Bahawalpur to attend his mother’s funeral when the incident occurred.

On August 17, the victim, daughter of local labourer Muhammad Aslam, failed to return home from her madrassa. Her father later found her in a nearby field in trauma. Police said Hamza had spotted the girl while fetching water from a roadside filter tap and allegedly assaulted her in the fields before fleeing.

Following the incident, a case was registered under FIR No. 1688/25, Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Hamza was arrested and he confessed to the crime, but escaped police custody during physical remand while being brought back from Lahore after a DNA test.

On Thursday, police received intelligence about Hamza’s presence at a rural hideout. During the raid, unidentified men opened fire on officers. In the exchange, Hamza was critically injured, reportedly by bullets fired by his accomplices. Rescue 1122 responded to the scene, but he succumbed to his injuries.

His body was shifted to a hospital for legal formalities. According to the Police, the attackers fled and a search operation is now underway to apprehend the remaining suspects.

A man accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Chunian was critically injured after reportedly accidentally shooting himself in the private parts during a police raid on Friday, according to media reports.

According to the Police officials, the suspect, believed to be 27 or 28 years old, was captured on CCTV molesting the child in Zaheerabad Colony. The disturbing footage, which went viral on social media, showed him approaching the girl in the street and committing the crime. The victim’s father later identified the suspect and filed a First Information Report (FIR).

The suspect is a daily-wage labourer from the same neighbourhood, is married and has a daughter. Following the FIR, police launched a raid to arrest him.

During the operation, the suspect allegedly resisted arrest and pulled out a pistol. According to police sources, the weapon discharged accidentally, causing a severe injury to his private parts. He was rushed to a hospital for treatment.

A senior officer told a private media outlet, “The suspect attempted to brandish a weapon during the raid. In the chaos, the pistol went off and injured him. Our team did not fire any shots.”

This incident echoes a similar case from Shah Inayat Colony three weeks earlier, where another man was caught molesting a girl playing in the street. That video also sparked widespread outrage online.

District Police Officer Essa Khan Sukhera had directed Station House Officer Asif Javed to arrest the suspect. City police apprehended the man, a labourer from Okara, three days later. He too suffered a gunshot wound to his private parts when his pistol discharged during a confrontation on Dhanpat Road.

A 16-year-old girl was found strangled to death at her home in Chiniot after unidentified individuals broke in, police said Friday.

According to Allah Rakha’s complaint, his daughter Basheeran Bibi was home alone after his brother Ghulam Mustafa left for work. Unknown attackers then broke into the house, strangled the teen, and fled. On returning home, the family discovered Basheeran dead on the bed with clear wounds on her neck.

Police shifted the body to the hospital for a postmortem and registered a case under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code. An investigation is underway.

Meanwhile, in a separate case, Chiniot police have booked two serving officers and several others for allegedly kidnapping two citizens and extorting ransom from their families. 

The FIR, lodged on the complaint of Rizwan’s wife, Mehreen, stated that ASI Imtiaz Kamoka and Constable Maisam Taimar of Kotwali Police Station, along with accomplices, raided a house in the City Chiniot Police Station limits. They are accused of tying up, threatening, and removing Rizwan and Zafar Abbas, who ran an online business.

The suspects demanded Rs9 million in ransom, but eventually settled for Rs500,000 in cash and gold jewellery, which Mehreen handed over. 

After her complaint, Chiniot police launched an operation and set up checkpoints to intercept the accused.

During an encounter on Chiniot Road, the suspects opened fire at police. Two men, Mazhar and Abdul Rehman, were injured in the exchange and later taken into custody. ASI Imtiaz Kamoka, Constable Maisam Taimar, Abdullah, Sohail, and Zain are currently facing a case under several sections, including kidnapping.

 Police have also launched a search operation to arrest the remaining suspects.

Police in Rawalpindi have arrested a man along with his teenage son on charges of beating his wife to death and attempting to bury her in their native town of Kot Addu. The arrests were made after the woman’s relatives reported signs of violence on her body.

The woman, 36-year-old Samina Bibi, passed away after suffering serious head injuries, a police spokesperson said. When she was taken to Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital on August 10, her husband Amir Abbas first claimed to the medical staff that she had fallen down stairs. According to hospital records, she passed away on August 13 after sustaining severe head injuries.

Without telling her parents, Abbas announced the funeral and took the body to Kot Addu for burial. When female relatives, including the victim’s sister and sister-in-law, looked over the body and noticed several injury marks, the plot was derailed. Ghulam Akhtar, her father, was informed and the police was called. 

Later, Akhtar filed a complaint with Rawalpindi’s Dhamiyal police, claiming that his daughter had wed Abbas 19 years prior without her family’s approval and that the two had three kids together. He claimed that Abbas killed his daughter and tried to hide the murder by claiming it was an accident, with the help of his 17-year-old eldest son Muhammad Zaman.

Police said the suspects threatened Akhtar and other relatives when they intervened, but officers moved the body back to Rawalpindi for a postmortem examination. Both Abbas and his son were formally taken into custody and presented before a court, which granted police three days of physical remand for investigation.

SP Sadar Muhammad Nabil Khokhar said further proceedings will continue once the investigation is completed.

The National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has placed a man from Lahore in police custody for five days on Thursday after he was accused of using Snapchat to exploit a minor.

According to the agency, the arrest was made in response to information regarding the suspect’s internet activities that were given by an international organization. Investigators confiscated his phone after he was arrested and have discovered pornographic material stored in screenshots and screen-recording folders.

NCCIA informed a sessions court that the suspect confessed to the crime while being questioned. Section 22 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016, which addresses the unauthorized use of identification information, was used to file a complaint against him.

The court granted five of the fourteen days of physical remand that sub-inspector Shafqat Ehsan, the investigating officer, had asked. On August 26, the suspect will be re-presented.

The incident has taken place in the midst of an increase in child abuse reports nationwide. In 2024, there were 3,364 such cases countrywide, encompassing all provinces as well as Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan, according to data from the child rights organization Sahil.

According to the group breakdown, girls made up 53 percent of the victims while boys made up 47 percent. There were 93 male and 108 female victims in the 200 instances that were categorized as sexual abuse cases.

Burglars looted valuables worth nearly Rs0.9 million from a house in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Phase II, in Karachi and left behind bizarre drawings that shocked the family.

According to media reports citing police, the thieves stole two bridal dresses worth Rs300,000, 25 branded embroidered suits, Rs300,000 in cash, three packed mobile phones worth Rs50,000, two smartwatches, electronic items worth Rs50,000, artificial jewellery worth Rs150,000, and a large suitcase priced at Rs35,000. Police said the total loss is still being assessed.

What disturbed the family most were the bizarre signs left on the walls. The burglars reportedly used lipstick to draw cartoons and circles, marked children’s photographs with red symbols, decorated a mirror with strange patterns, and even wrote a message in English Bollywood style, according to investigators.

The complaint filed by Shehryar Ali, son of Sajjad Hussain, stated that the suspects broke into the third floor of his house when no one was home. The family returned around 11 pm and found the entire floor ransacked.

Steel Town police have registered a case and started an investigation to trace the culprits.

An 18-year-old student in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, India set his former teacher on fire after dousing her with petrol.

Police identified the accused as Suryansh Kochar, who allegedly attacked the teacher on Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. According to reports he arrived at her residence carrying a bottle of petrol, poured it on her without speaking a word, set her ablaze, and fled the scene.

The victim suffered burn injuries on 10 to 15 percent of her body. She was rushed to the district hospital where doctors confirmed that her condition is out of danger.

According to police, Suryansh had been obsessed with the teacher for the past two years and developed one-sided feelings for her. Recently, during Independence Day celebrations, he made an inappropriate remark about her attire. The teacher filed a complaint, which angered him and led him to plan the brutal attack.

“This is a case of one-sided emotions and personal grudge. The accused was upset over the complaint and carried out a premeditated assault,” said SDOP Manoj Gupta.

Police launched an immediate search operation and arrested the accused from the Dongaragaon police station area. A case has been registered against him under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Six unidentified armed robbers on two motorcycles looted Rs15.6 million from the staff of a Korean seafood export company near Keamari Fish Harbour, a video clip circulating on social media shows. 

The incident took place after the company’s staff withdrew the money from a nearby bank.

According to media reports, as the vehicle carrying the cash reached close to the company’s gate, the robbers intercepted it at gunpoint and snatched the bag containing the money. The armed men also disarmed a security guard who was accompanying the staff and fled the scene.

Police officials said the security guard did not resist during the robbery, and both he and the company’s accountant have been taken into custody for questioning.

SSP Keamari Captain (retd) Faizan Ali confirmed that CCTV footage of the incident has been obtained along with other evidence. SHO Docks Nand Lal stated that, as per the company’s statement, the looted cash was to be distributed among employees as bonuses.