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

A viral CCTV footage had earlier this week shown the suspect driving past two women on a street, only to turn his bike around and grope one of the women outside their house.

Days after the video started doing the rounds on social media, a new video has surfaced online, showing the suspect confessing to what he did.

He went on to confess to a similar incident six months ago, and revealed that he had accidentally shot himself in his private parts 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.

It merits a mention that the “accidental” firing of the suspect’s own weapon and injuring his private parts is not the first incident of its kind as several similar cases involving rape or molestation suspects have been reported in recent weeks.

On August 22, a man accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Chunian was critically injured after accidentally shooting himself in the private parts during a police raid for his arrest.

Earlier, another suspect who harassed a minor in Kasur’s Shah Inayat Colony, accidentally “shot himself” while trying to evade arrest.

One day after a case had been registered against 142 protestors for attacking police at village Ralioke near Daska last week, Sialkot police have arrested 51 individuals suspected of being involved in the attack. 

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered on the complaint of Motra Police Station House Officer (SHO) Mobin Ahmed Cheema who said that the police were performing routine duty when they reached village Ralioke at 2pm, finding a mob carrying hammers, sticks and iron rods, seeking to demolish the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya’s Baitul Zikr.

Cheema said that efforts to tell the charged mob not to take the law into their hands went in vain, adding that, instead, they attacked the police. 

He further stated that upon receiving information about the attack on the police, a heavy contingent reached the spot. 

According to details, when the Sialkot Superintendent Police (SP) investigation reached the spot, the angry protesters attacked the police once again, pelting them with stones, opening fire, and damaging the van of the SP and the prisoners.

As per the SHO, the police seized three pistols and bullets from the spot. Motra Police Station registered an FIR against 42 identified and 100 unidentified suspects under sections 324/353/440/148/149/295 /295A/153A of the PPC and 7-ATA. Some of the suspects were arrested on the day of the incident, while others were arrested on Sunday.

Videos of the attack on the Ahmadi Place were circulated on social media on Friday. Before that, suspects had made announcements on social media, urging people to gather at Ralioke.

The Punjab police played an effective role last week, as Lahore police reportedly thwarted a mob attack on a worship place of the Ahmadi community in the city’s Samanabad. 

A strong contingent of force from several police stations reportedly responded to the emergency 15 call from the community when local residents were about to advance towards the Ahmadi worship place.

As the mob reportedly attempted to siege the worship place, the police launched a major operation, rescuing women, children and other worshippers, shifting them to a secured area and increased security of the worship place. Police high-ups also engaged known local figures, including religious leaders, to maintain peace.

An Ahmadi worshipper told Dawn News that the protesters had accused the Ahmadi community of violating the time schedule of worship on Friday. However, dismissing the charge, he said that they were following the given schedule.

Lahore Operations Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Faisal Kamran confirmed that protestors gathered outside the Ahmadi worship place were members of a religious-cum-political party pressing for a change in Ahmadi worship timing.

In a horrifying incident, bodies of five newborn baby girls have been found in heaps of garbage in different areas of Sialkot during the last 15 days, a leading newspaper reported on Monday.

According to District Emergency Officer Rescue 1122 Naveed Iqbal, the rescue team received a call about a newborn lying in the garbage near Adda Stop, Duska, on February 15, 2024. When they arrived at the scene, the baby girl had already died.

Similarly, Iqbal claimed that the bodies of four other newborn girls were discovered in Kharta Sayedan, Pasrur Road, Dalwali, and Bhaer Pulley, adding that most of the bodies had been mutilated by stray animals.

Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) Faisal Shahzad stated that two of the bodies were found within the Saddar police station’s jurisdiction, while three were discovered in the Cantonment police station’s precincts. He added that an FIR had been registered against unidentified individuals responsible for discarding the newborns.

The DPO mentioned that police investigation teams have begun working on these cases and expressed hope that the culprits would be identified soon using human intelligence and modern tools such as CCTV footage.

Expressing concern over the horrific incident, Sialkot Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Zulqarnain Langarial said the health chief executive officer had been directed to inspect private hospitals and maternity homes to find clues about the parents of the deceased newborns.

Langarial emphasised that such incidents would not be possible without the cooperation of civil society.

Separately, the corpse of a newborn child was found on a garbage heap in Mozang, Lahore, according to a reputable media outlet.

As per Edhi Foundation officials, the infant’s remains were abandoned on a roadside garbage heap.

Upon receiving information, Mozang police took the body into custody and arranged its burial at Miani Sahib graveyard with the help of Edhi volunteers.

A case was registered against an unidentified individual, and police said they were working to determine the circumstances surrounding the death.

Meanwhile, a 65-year-old woman was found dead in her rented house in Harbanspura, with initial reports suggesting she was electrocuted.

The deceased, identified as Shakeela Fazilat, was living alone. Upon receiving information, police arrived and shifted the body to a hospital for a post-mortem examination.

The police registered a case and launched an investigation. Investigators suspect that the woman was deliberately electrocuted, but details will emerge after forensic and medical analysis.

A domestic fight took the life of a woman from tehsil Daska of Sialkot.

Media reports suggest that the 30-year-old woman was killed by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law on Tuesday. The victim’s body was then put into a sack and thrown into a drain.

The case came to light when Shabbir Ahmed, a resident of district Gujranwala, complained to the police that his daughter Zara Bibi, who was married to Qadeer Ahmed of tehsil Daska, had gone missing. 

Zara and Qadeer had been married for four years, but Qadeer worked abroad while Zara lived with her in-laws.

Shabbir told the police that when he called his daughter two days back, he found her mobile phone switched off. Worried, he went to meet his daughter at her in-laws’ house in the village of Kotli Meeran in Daska. There, he found out that she was not home, and her in-laws expressed ignorance of her whereabouts.

Zara’s father alleged that her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law used to assault his daughter.

The local Police Station registered an FIR against Zara’s in-laws, namely her mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and their sons. 

A police investigation revealed that the victim’s body was found in a sewage drain. 

Further investigation revealed that she was killed and her body was dismembered by the killers. 

Geo News reports that the suspects confessed to the murder during the investigation, after which the police recovered the body parts from a sack in a drain.

It was further revealed in the probe that the mother-in-law is actually the maternal aunt of the victim, and Zara had just returned to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia with her two-and-a-half-year-old son.  She is reported to have come to visit often in the past as well.

The reason behind the domestic feud was that Qadeer used to send all the money to his wife’s account, which perturbed Zara’s mother-in-law, Sughran Bibi.

The latter first tried to get her son to divorce his wife by accusing her of having loose morals. When that did not work out, she and her daughters planned the murder. To execute the plan, the mother and daughters lured a relative from Lahore, Naveed, to help him go to Italy. Thus, they first choked Zara to death, then cut her body into pieces and then burnt her face so that she could not be identified. 

They stuffed the pieces of the body in five sacks. After this, Naveed went back to Lahore while the mother-in-law, with the help of her daughters and grandsons, threw the body in the drain.

As Zara’s father informed the police about her daughter’s disappearance, the cops took the grandsons into custody and interrogated them, who revealed the whole truth.

Now all the suspects involved are in police custody.

Seven people were gunned down by a rival group over a land dispute in Sialkot on Tuesday. A luxury vehicle going towards Manga Bridge was fired upon indiscriminately by gunmen hiding in the vicinity. Resultantly, a passerby was seriously injured in the attack.

The victims were identified as 50-year-old Qari Ashfaq, 35-year-old Nisar Ahmed, Muhammad Anwar, Master Shafaat, Nika Masih, Babar and driver Saleem who died on the spot.

The passenger was identified as 30-year-old Nadeem, a resident of a nearby village.

The victims were residents of Mari Kalan village, Sheikhupura district.

The gunmen escaped after the attack.

Rescue teams found all of the victims dead.

Initial investigation by the police suggests that the shooting occurred in the Kalrawala Police Station jurisdiction and it was a result of long standing enmity between two groups over a land dispute in Sheikhupura.

A local report said the deceased belonged to Mari Kalan village in Sheikhupura district and opponents from Maluk village, Pasrur.

Notably, the boundaries of Sheikhupura district, Sialkot and Gujranwala are separated from Manga bridge.

The injured person was referred to Lahore by Narowal District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition.