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  • Police arrest Khairpur teacher for raping, filming minor students

    Police arrest Khairpur teacher for raping, filming minor students

    The Sindh Police have arrested a retired schoolteacher for allegedly raping minor students, many of whom he tutored at a private property in Khairpur. The suspect was caught on Friday evening after escaping arrest earlier.

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    According to details, Sukkur range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Fida Hussain Mastoi said police had raided the suspect’s hometown but he managed to escape. The DIG also confirmed the scandal that went viral on social media.

    The suspect, who was a government schoolteacher, had recently retired. He was accused of raping one of his students, recording the act and then circulating it on social media. He has also been accused of forcing his students to commit sodomy with each other. It is pertinent to mention here that all students at his tuition centre were between the ages of 10 and 12.

    After the news gained traction on social media, social activists, journalists and other members of the civil society expressed their outrage on the matter and demanded the authorities take strict action against the suspect.

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    Mehwish Hayat also took to Twitter to applaud the Sindh Police for taking swift action.

  • Police arrest man who allegedly gang-raped TikTok friend

    Police arrest man who allegedly gang-raped TikTok friend

    The Lahore Police has arrested a man who allegedly gang-raped a girl with his two accomplices. The two reportedly became friends at a popular video-sharing app, TikTok.

    According to reports, the victim girl filed a complaint at Millat Park police station in Lahore in which she accused three men of gang-raping her.

    In her complaint, the girl stated that she became friends with a boy, Shiraz, through the TikTok app 20 days ago. Shiraz then called her to come to the Samanabad area on June 13. When she reached there, Shiraz asked her to sit in his car. Two men were already sitting in the vehicle.

    The girl said that she was gang-raped by all three men on gunpoint inside the car.

  • VIDEO: KP police constable rescues stray dog from canal

    VIDEO: KP police constable rescues stray dog from canal

    A video doing rounds on the internet shows a police constable rescuing a dog from a canal. Superintendent (SP) Hassan Jahangir Wattoo took to Twitter to applaud the police constable.

    He shared the video with the caption, ‘A dog fell into a canal and couldn’t get out. A KP Police Constable can be seen rescuing it to safety. Kindness towards all living beings is our motto.’

    In the video, the police officer can be seen pulling the animal from the canal as the stray dog was struggling to come out.

    People on the internet cannot stop praising the police constable for his kindness towards the animal.

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  • Cop martyred in Pakistan Stock Exchange attack was to retire two days later

    Cop martyred in Pakistan Stock Exchange attack was to retire two days later

    One of the martyred security personnel who thwarted the attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on Monday, was due to retire from service two days later, SAMAA reported.

    Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Muhammad Shahid of Lyari recruited 33 years ago in 1987, was due to retire on July 1.

    Senior police officials have paid tribute to the martyred officer. They say the city owes its peace to such valiant police personnel.

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa among others have also paid tribute to the brave cops and security guards who laid down their lives to foil the attack by killing all four gunmen affiliated with the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) before they could enter the compound.

    Constable Muhammad Rafiq Soomro and Constable Khalil Jatoyi are also being praised for their valour and the critical role they played in thwarting the attack within eight minutes of its launch.

    Earlier, panic and fear swept across Karachi after four terrorists tried to storm the PSX building on I I Chundrigar Road Monday. The assailants came in a car and tried to enter the building, according to the police.

    They were intercepted by security guards after which the militants threw a hand grenade at them and opened gunfire. All four attackers were killed after a brief encounter with commandos of the Sindh Police’s Rapid Response Force.

  • Punjab Police wants to ban PUBG after 2 suicides

    Punjab Police wants to ban PUBG after 2 suicides

    Punjab Police wants to ban the popular video game ‘Players Unknown’s Battlegrounds’ (PUBG) after two young people in Lahore committed suicide over the game.

    According to reports, a 16-year-old boy took his own life on Tuesday when his parents stopped him from playing PUBG. His parents called the Hanjarwal police in Gulshan-e-Abbas’s Phase 2 when they found his body.

    The parents refused to allow a post-mortem autopsy. Police have registered this as a case of suicide and further investigation is in process.

    In a similar incident, another 20-year-old boy also committed suicide in Saddar Bazaar in North Cantonment when his parents told him to stop playing the online game.

    As per reports, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police (Operations Wing) Lahore, Ashfaq Khan has decided to write a letter to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to ban PUBG.

    PUBG is a battle royale game developed by a South Korean company. The game involves multiple players that are connected online as they face off and kill each other to become the last survivor.

  • VIDEO: 9-year-old boy steals car, gets away with police warning

    VIDEO: 9-year-old boy steals car, gets away with police warning

    A 9-year-old boy stole a car from the Karachi’s Sea View area and drove it until it ran out of fuel. The Darakhshan police caught the boy but later released him with a warning and allowed him to go with his parents.

    As per reports, the child had stolen the car from Khayaban-e-Mujahid. His act was caught on the closed-circuit television (CCTV) and footage of the incident went viral on social media.

    The boy is the resident of Machar Colony. Police officials said that the minor boy liked driving and had stolen a few motorcycles in the past. They added that he would drive vehicles until the fuel ran out after which he leaves them where they stop.

    According to police, the little boy’s father is a drug addict. Police noted that they have warned the boy and let him go.

  • Delhi man hires juvenile to murder him so family can claim insurance money

    Delhi man hires juvenile to murder him so family can claim insurance money

    A man in Delhi,India hired a juvenile to kill him so that his family could get his insurance money.

    Gaurav Bansal, 37, was a grocery shop owner. He was found hanging from a tree near Kheri Baba Pul in Ranhola area of outer Delhi on June 10.

    both of his hands were found knotted so olice registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and an investigation was started, said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer, A. Koan.

    Initial probe revealed that Bansal’s family members had filed a missing complaint. “On the basis of intelligence, a suspect identified as Suraj was apprehended. During sustained interrogation, Suraj revealed that he along with two others – Manoj and Sumit – were roped in to commit killing by a juvenile, who was in contact with the deceased,” the officer said.

    Following the revelations, Manoj, Sumit and the juvenile were arrested.

    The juvenile then revealed that Bansal contacted him on social media and said that he faced some financial problems due to which he wished to die. “He told the juvenile that he would pay him for his murder as because of this, his family would get his insurance payout,” the DCP added.

    Koan also said that two agreed for a sum of around Rs60,000 to kill him. “In order to execute the killing, the juvenile roped in his friend Manoj who later involved Suraj and Sumit for this alleged contract killing.”

    “The accused persons killed the victim by hanging him from a tree. During the questioning, they revealed that they had received money for this act from the victim. Bansal had told them if they killed him, his family will get the insurance money,” the DCP said.

    Further investigation of the case  is underway.

  • Girl’s Facebook status ‘robbers at my home’ gets them caught

    Girl’s Facebook status ‘robbers at my home’ gets them caught

    Facebook helped in capturing two robbers, who entered a house in Lahore after a girl posted a status on Facebook that two robbers have entered her house.

    As per reports, two robbers entered a house in Faisal Town, Lahore. A woman named Saba, who was in the upper portion of the house, posted a status on Facebook that two dacoits have entered her house after observing resistance from the family members.

    Reading the post, friends and the other family members of Saba, instantly called police helpline 15, who reached the house in no time and arrested the robbers after negotiations of half an hour.

     Saba said after the robbers broke into the house, she immediately shared a status on Facebook after locking her room in the upper portion of the building.

  • Police arrest man for posting drunken photos on Facebook

    Police arrest man for posting drunken photos on Facebook

    A man was arrested in Mardan’s Dagai village after he uploaded pictures of himself drinking liquor on social media.

    As per reports, the police apprehended the suspect after tracing his location from social media. Three bottles of alcohol were detained.

    DPO Sajjad said the police will not tolerate any activity where people show off illegal things on social media platforms.

    Alcohol consumption has been banned for Muslims in Pakistan since 1977, the restriction was imposed by then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

  • Rana Sanaullah stopped by police, refuses to let them check his vehicle in absence of media

    Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and lawmaker Rana Sanaullah was on Wednesday morning intercepted by police off Lahore’s The Mall. He, however, refused to step out of the vehicle and let the officials check it in the absence of media, The Current has learnt.

    According to sources, the PML-N stalwart was stopped by the police in the Regal Chowk area of the provincial capital in connection with the arrest of party president and Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif.

    The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) since Tuesday had been attempting to arrest Shehbaz in the assets beyond means case against him. The bureau had, however, failed to trace the PML-N chief despite raiding his Model Town and Jati Umra residences among other locations.

    READ: NAB arrest: Cat and mouse as Shehbaz not found

    Wednesday’s incident took place before a Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench granted pre-arrest bail to Shehbaz till June 17.

    “I will not let you check my vehicle in the absence of media because I fear being framed for carrying drugs once again,” Sanaullah, who had earlier been arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), told the cops who stopped him to check if Shehbaz was also present in the vehicle.

    The ANF had last year detained the lawmaker after accusing him of carrying a cache of drugs in his vehicle and for “supplying it to drug dealers”.

    After months-long incarceration, Sanaullah had been granted bail amid lack of evidence. He had then accused the ANF of planting the drugs in his vehicle for the registration of a “bogus” case against him.