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  • Usman Mirza Case: Couple refuses to recognise accused persons, reportedly took one crore in deal

    Usman Mirza Case: Couple refuses to recognise accused persons, reportedly took one crore in deal

    Journalist Rauf Klasra, in a tweet has said that the victim couple in the Usman Mirza case have refused to recognise the accused persons. He further said that police has said the couple have taken “1 crore and have reached a settlement.”

    Usman Mirza, the prime accused in the couple harassment case, was arrested on July 7 after the disturbing video went viral on social media where he could be seen torturing and assaulting a couple. He was also seen stripping the woman in the video.

    Seven suspects including Usman Mirza were indicted in the case in September.

  • Murree residents block roads by throwing snow, demand money, investigation ordered

    Murree residents block roads by throwing snow, demand money, investigation ordered

    Rawalpindi police has taken notice of the repeated incidents of blocking of roads in Murree by people throwing snow. Capital City Policer Officer (CCPO) has taken the notice of a complaint registered by a citizen and has ordered relevant authorities to take action against the people involved. Further investigations are underway.

    Earlier, Journalist Hamid Mir posted a video of a person narrating how some locals of Murree throw snow on the roads on purpose. They then demand money from the tourists in return of clearing the roads.

  • Police arrest men disguised in burqas harassing women in Lahore

    Police arrest men disguised in burqas harassing women in Lahore

    Police arrested two men disguised in burqas for harassing women on Sunday at Lahore’s Greater Iqbal Park, reports Geo News.

    According to the police, the two had worn burqas to hide their identities. They were also involved in harassing families that had come to visit the park.

    The superintendent of police (SP) of the anti-riot force has said that strict legal action will be taken against the culprits.

    Meanwhile, it is reported that both men have been transferred to the city’s Lari Adda police station.

    Earlier, a horrific incident had taken place at the Greater Iqbal Park where more than 400 men had attacked a woman named Aisha Akram on Independence Day.

  • Two TTP banned ‘terrorists’ arrested in Karachi, planning attacks

    Two TTP banned ‘terrorists’ arrested in Karachi, planning attacks

    Two terrorists allegedly belonging to the banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested on Monday, in Karachi during a raid.

    The two were planning attacks on multiple security officials in the city.

    According to Samaa, police have seized cracker bombs, fake passports, ball bearings, illegal arms, and detonators from their possession. The terrorists, identified as Razaullah alias Nasir and Habib Noor alias Sher Habib, joined the organisation in 2011 and 2008, respectively.

    Earlier, as per the media outlet a group of six TTP men entered Karachi.

    The police are currently interrogating the remaining terrorists. A senior official said, “The test is to locate and arrest the remaining four. The arrested suspects said that the Tashkeel [group] of six suspects was headed by a person namely Umar.”

  • Police and judiciary most corrupt institutions in Pakistan, reveals National Corruption Perception Survey 2021

    Police and judiciary most corrupt institutions in Pakistan, reveals National Corruption Perception Survey 2021

    The National Corruption Perception Survey 2021 conducted by Transparency International (TI) Pakistan finds the police and judiciary are the most corrupt institutions in the country, reports Ansar Abbasi for The News.

    The police department has been ranked at number one with 41.4 per cent votes while the judiciary comes at number two with17.4 per cent votes. According to the Judicial Statistics of Pakistan 2020 report by the National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee, there are 46,698 cases pending in the Supreme Court and 1,772,990 cases pending in the District Judiciary.

    In 2021, TI Pakistan conducted the NCPS 2021 in all four provinces. The survey was conducted from October 14, 2021, to October 27, 2021. It reflects the perception of the general public on governance issues. 

    According to the survey, the three most important causes of corruption are weak accountability (51.9 per cent), the greed of powerful people (29.3 per cent) and low salaries (18.8 per cent).

    40.1 per cent of Pakistanis say an increase in/stringent punishments is a way to reduce corruption while 34.6 per cent Pakistanis say accountability of public officers by expediting NAB’s handling of corruption cases, and 25.3 per cent say a complete ban on those convicted of corruption from holding public office are key to combat corruption in Pakistan.

    Moreover, the vast majority of people think the federal government’s self-accountability is unsatisfactory.

    In the report, a total of 89.1 per cent of Pakistanis claim that they did not pay any bribe to any government official during the federal government’s Covid-19 relief efforts for deserving citizens.

  • Man dresses as Joker, injures 17 people on train

    Man dresses as Joker, injures 17 people on train

    A man, dressed in a Joker costume and flaunting a knife, stabbed at least one commuter on a Tokyo passenger train before starting a fire.

    As per reports, the Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were wounded, including three seriously. Not all of them were stabbed and most of the other injuries were not serious, the fire department said.

    The criminal identified as 24-year-old Kyota Hattori, was detained on the spot after Sunday’s attack and was being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder, the Tokyo metropolitan police department said Monday.

    The attacker, riding an express train headed to Tokyo’s Shinjuku station, abruptly took out a knife and stabbed a seated passenger in his 70s.

    Police said he told the authorities that he wanted to murder people and get the death penalty. Nippon Television said he also said that he used an earlier train stabbing case as an example.

  • Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Police on Saturday booked seven people for gang-raping a minor orphan girl for five months. She was repeatedly assaulted by the suspects who blackmailed her and threatened to kill her younger brother, Dawn reported.

    According to the FIR, an orphan girl of Basti Odki Abdullah Shah was allegedly gang-raped by two locals at gunpoint about four to five months ago after the suspects found her alone at her house when her mother was away working as a housemaid.

    The FIR stated the two suspects threatened to murder the victim’s only younger brother Ahmed if she told anyone about the rape.

    Police sources said the girl, however, had informed her mother about the incident who kept visiting the local police station to register the complaint but because of some locally influential people, she was turned away by police officials of the area.

    Meanwhile, another local joined the two suspects in the heinous crime and they would gang-rape the girl whenever they found her alone.

    Some three months ago, four other men of the same area caught the suspects red-handed while they were assaulting the girl in the fields and they too blackmailed and raped her. The FIR said that as a result of repeatedly being rape, the girl got pregnant.

    The sources said some of the police officials forced the victim’s mother into taking the matter to the panchayat (village jury).

    The panchayat decided that the suspects would pay a certain amount to the girl’s mother as compensation and she, along with her two children, leave the village. The girl’s family came to Lahore following the decision.

    However, the family returned to the village and again contacted the police for registration of a case against the suspects.

    Finally, the district police officer took notice of the incident and on his orders, the local police station in Bahawalnagar registered an FIR against all the seven suspects under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    District police spokesperson Saleem Ayaz admitted that the girl’s family had approached the police for help but meanwhile, a local panchayat interfered and settled the issue on its own.

    He said a case against the seven suspects was registered on the order of DPO Zafar Buzdar and three of them had been detained, while raids were being conducted to arrest the others.

  • Police rescue woman raped by brother, held hostage for two years

    Police rescue woman raped by brother, held hostage for two years

    The police have rescued a woman from an apartment in Karachi’s Marwari Line of the Ranchore Line neighbourhood after a neighbor hinted that she was imprisoned, Aamir Majeed reported for Samaa News.

    Eidgah Assistant Sub-Inspector Zahid Mehmood told Samaa Digital that they received a complaint on police helpline 15 Madadgar by a man who identified himself as Junaid to make them aware of the suspected hostage in Jannat Bibi Building.

     A police team instantly went to the venue where a large number of people were gathered outside the building. According to ASI Mehmood, when they entered the single-room apartment, there was a very weak woman covered in a bedsheet. The woman was so weak that she could not even walk. She was taken to Civil Hospital, Karachi, for rehabilitation in an ambulance.

     According to ASI Mehmood, neighbours caught her brother — identified as Iqbal — and handed him over to the police.

    Read More: Woman gang-raped at Lahore hotel for seven days

     An FIR was registered against her brother on the complaint of the victim’s maternal uncle Muhammad Hassan. He told the police that the woman’s parents had passed away and her brother took her with him three years ago and did not contact the extended family. 

     Junaid contacted the police and said that Iqbal was living in an apartment that he had rented two-and-a-half years ago. Everyone knew Iqbal lived with his sister there but no one ever saw her. He claimed that sometimes they heard her crying, but no one interfered, thinking it was a personal matter.

     Junaid told the police that people in the area suspected that something was wrong after someone threw used condoms out of the apartment. Though the apartment was locked, the women of the area tried to look inside through a window. They saw a woman lying naked.

     District City SSP Sarfaraz Nawaz said that a woman medico-legal officer examined the victim.

     “According to the WMLO, the victim was raped,” he confirmed. The police have acquired semen samples from the suspect and sent them for tests. Further investigation is underway.

  • Police arrest man for raping six-year-old cousin while brother guarded door

    Police arrest man for raping six-year-old cousin while brother guarded door

    A man has been arrested for raping his six-year-old cousin in Bahawalpur, Samaa News reported.

    The minor girl’s mother lived with her sister and their children. The women of the family were at their neighbours’ house, while the children were at home. “When we came back, I heard my daughter’s screams from one of the rooms,” the complainant, who is the six-year-old child’s mother, told the police.

    The suspect, Adnan, was raping the child while his brother Nadir was watching over the door. “When they saw us, they attacked us with punches and kicks and escaped from the scene,” the complainant added.

    Read More: Watchman rapes four-year-old boy who went inside school to get a ball

    A case has been registered against the men under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    The suspects were arrested after a police raid on Friday. The investigation officer said that Adnan’s DNA sample will be tested and further inquiry is underway.

  • Two men arrested for pretending to be women

    Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detained two men in Lahore — one of them a foreign national — on charges of looting people while posing as women on Facebook, Samaa has reported.

    The Cyber Crime Wing has arrested one foreigner and one local man named Darlington and Asif Ali, respectively.

    FIA Additional Director Shahid Hussain said that during the investigation, the suspects said that they duped people by uploading pictures of beautiful girls. They chatted with different men and then looted them by asking them for dollars.

    As per the FIA, “They force youngsters and women to send them inappropriate pictures and then blackmail them.”

    Earlier, FIA booked model Ifrah Khan on charges of blackmailing a businessman and demanding extortion of millions from him.