Category: Crime

Punjab police has registered cases against two of its own SHOs in their own police stations and arrested one in a rare example of self accountability. 

According to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Faisal Kamran, the SHO of Defence A police station Mian Sajad has been charged with accepting bribes of PKR 1.7 million from three drug trafficking suspects and letting them go. The SHO is now under arrest. 

Faisal Kamran also confirmed that a case of acting beyond authority under Section 155 has been registered against Salman Akbar, the SHO of Faisal Town, and constable Maqbool Shaqir. 

Police are conducting raids to find the SHO.

A man in Karachi has filed a case against his friend, suspecting him of stealing an expensive pair of huskies.

Dog trainer Nelson has filed a case at the Darakshan police station against his friend Eric, suspecting him of stealing the dogs from a house in DHA. 

Nelson has charged Eric with familiarising himself with the dogs before getting the dogs out of the house and fleeing with them.  

Police have started an investigation into the case. 

Huskies are native to polar regions where they work as sled dogs. The heavy coated dogs are ideal for snow-covered winter lands, with a high tolerance for cold temperatures. 

In the past few years, the dogs have become popular in Pakistan, with many dog lovers keeping them as pets. However, vets generally warn against keeping the dogs as they are extremely intolerant of the high temperatures that are usually in the summers in the country.

A well-bred Husky can sell for as much as PKR 200,000.

A man in Pattoki has died after being electrocuted through a local mosque’s metallic charity donation box. 

A senior police official in the city told Independent Urdu that there are five to six mosques and madrassahs in the area where the young man, named Tanveer Akhtar Jan, died.

“The administration of these mosques and madrassahs release electric current in the boxes at night,” he said. 

SHO of the police station said that they received a call from a citizen between the night of February 11 and 12, saying that a body was lying near the gate of the graveyard in Chak 13, a village named Jodh Singh Walla. 

Police are investigating whether Tanveer was electrocuted while attempting to ransack the donation box.

While a case has been registered against six people who run the mosque’s affairs, a member of the mosque’s administration said that drug addicts steal from the donation boxes at night, forcing the mosques to resort to such measures. 

Tanveer’s family told the police that they neither want to pursue legal proceedings nor want an autopsy of his body. The case, however, has been registered by the police on their own.

A 12-year-old child has died in Rawalpindi’s Holy Family Hospital after allegedly being beaten up by her employers. 

Iqra was rushed to hospital where she succumbed to the injuries she received during the assault. Police have arrested Rashid Shafiq and his wife Sana- Iqra’s employers- from the city’s Asghar Mall area. 

The child’s father, a resident of Mandi Bahauddin, has registered a case against the couple for murder and other charges. He told the police that Iqra was employed by the couple for PKR 8000 per month. Police have stated that the couple had lied to the authorities by saying that  Iqra was an orphan. 

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that there are around 8.5 million domestic workers in the country, with a majority of them being women and young girls. 

Cases of child labour being beaten up and even killed by employers have haunted the country since many years. 

In 2023, Ayesha, an 11-year-old domestic worker, was killed by violence in Faisalabad. She got hired four months prior to her murder for a salary of 5,000 per month in a house belonging to a female lecturer in Naimat Colony.

Ayesha was beaten up on the allegations of theft to such an extent that she succumbed to her injuries and died.

Her parents have said that when they reached the Civil Hospital, they saw that their daughter was badly injured. They also revealed that they are being pressured by the influential suspects to reconcile, but they wanted them to be punished severely. Three of them were taken in police custody.

Then, in March 2024, Child Protection Bureau rescued a 14-year-old maid who was assaulted with scissors, knives, and sticks by the woman she worked for in the Garhi Shahu area of Lahore.

The woman cut the girl’s hair without her consent during the assault. Physical examination has revealed marks of physical violence on the body of the victim, identified as Sana.

In 2022, a body of a female house help was discovered in a cardboard box by police in Kahna on Friday, Ary News has reported. In the CCTV footage found by the police, two women — Bushra and her daughter Irum — can be seen dragging a cardboard box, which allegedly contained the victim’s body.

As per the police, the victim, named Yasmeen, worked at the house of Bushra. According to the police, the victim was first strangled and then stabbed.

The family of the victim has alleged that Yasmeen was killed by the mother and daughter.

A man has been arrested in Karachi for harassing a woman in the city’s Federal B area after CCTV of the altercation emerged online. 

In the video, the man, riding a motorcycle, is seen trying to grope a woman walking on a street. The woman turns around and tries to slap him. He manages to evade her but she turns back and tries to hit him again. 

At this point the motorcyclist turns his bike around and tries to flee the scene. Footage from another CCTV camera then shows a man running out of his house and pushing the harasser. The motorcyclist hits a parked car and lands on the road as his bike falls to the side. 

The good Samaritan then quickly grabs the man while the woman is also seen running towards him. 

The man was handed over to the police. 

This isn’t the first time motorcyclists in the port city have tried to harass women while passing them by. In December 2024, a viral video of a man on a motorcycle trying to expose himself to two female students went viral online. 

Another video of a man riding a motorcycle along with a young child and trying to grope a woman wearing a hijab went viral in August of last year, leading to vocal condemnation from netizens and many celebrities including Zara Noor Abbas. 

The year before that CCTV footage caught a man stripping on his motorcycle and harassing a woman who passed him by in North Karachi. The woman hit him, forcing him to flee from the street.

A policeman suspected of aerial firing on his wedding has been arrested along with his companions after a young child was killed on Sunday by a stray bullet in Lyari’s Musa Lane. 

Karachi police have confirmed to local media that the groom, Aftab Ahmad, is a police constable posted in the office of the Police Chief. He has now been charged in the case along with seven other suspects and four unknown individuals. 

Initial reports suggest that Aftab and his friends indulged in aerial firing in the Police Quarters near Docks Police Station. SMGs, 9 mm pistols and 30-bore rifles were allegedly used in the aerial firing to celebrate Aftab’s marriage. 

Police have said that the point where the men were firing into the air and the spot where the child was hit were separated by a distance of just one kilometer. 

Hayat Fatima was inside her eighth floor apartment when the bullet hit her on the head. She was rushed to the Civil Hospital in Karachi where she was pronounced dead on arrival. 

Police are working to investigate whether the guns used at Aftab’s wedding match the bullet that killed the child.

A nurse in the Indian state of Karnataka has been suspended after she used super glue (Fevikwik) on a child’s wound to put the skin back in its place. 

Fevikwik is a cyanoacrylate adhesive. The same product is sold in Pakistan under the brand name Elfy. It is a bonding agent used to join multiple surfaces including ceramics, plastics and even wood. It is also used in multiple industries. The adhesive is not to be used on human skin. 

On January 14, seven-year-old Gurukishan Appanna was brought to the Adoor Primary Health Center with a deep wound on his cheek. The parents filmed staff nurse Jyoti using glue to close the wound, telling them that she had done this many times to avoid scarring the face. 

 Once the parents submitted the video to the authorities, Jyoti was transferred to another institute. On Wednesday this week, she was finally suspended by authorities after discussions held during a meeting at the office of the state’s Chief Secretary. 

A press release issued by state authorities has said that the child is in good health. However, he will continue to be monitored for adverse reactions to the super glue.

A girl who ran away from her home was found dead soon after her parents brought her back to their house in Rawalpindi. 

A police official posted at the Jatli police station in the garrison city reported that a 17-year-old college student had been reported missing from her home in Syed Kasran. Her father and uncles eventually found her at Syed Adda and brought her back home. 

Reports of the girl being killed by her family spread in the area when the girl was found dead at home and quickly buried around 2 pm on the same day. 

A senior police official confirmed to DAWN that the matter is being investigated while a request will be filed in court to attain permission for the exhumation of the body. Legal proceedings will be initiated once an autopsy report has been filed. 

One week ago, police exhumed the body of a 21-year-old girl that bore signs of sexual assault and poisoning. Four people were arrested in the case where police suspect that the orphaned girl’s brother-in-law had been raping her for a long time.

Lahore police have arrested a male employee of the transport department for stalking a girl since seven months. 

The girl, a student at a local university, blocked 70 numbers that the man, a motor vehicle examiner at the transport department, used to call her from. 

She filed a case in Misri Shah against the harassment and black mailing. DIG Operations Faisal Kamran then formed a task force which immediately swung into action and arrested the stalker. 

The student had alleged that the man was well-connected and had no fear of the law. Police have reportedly attained enough evidence to verify that the girls’ claims are true. 

DIG Operations Faisal Kamran told the police that the case was immediately attended to under Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz’s zero-tolerance policy of crime against women. 

He pointed out that trained units had been established in educational institutions to combat harassment while women can also complain instantly through emergency helplines and Women Safety App.