LAHORE: In a major development in Lahore motorway rape case, police onThursday claimed to have identified the village of the suspects involvedin the heinous crime, ARY News reported.Ad
Talking to journalists, Punjab Inspector General of Police (IG) Inam Ghanisaid that the police have identified the village of the suspects andclaimed that they will apprehend the culprits soon.
He said that they identified the village during the geofencing of the areato detect the rape suspects. The IG said that 26 teams of police havecordoned off Karol village.
Meanwhile, Lahore CCPO claimed that they will apprehend the suspects within48 hours.
Sources said that the police have completed geofencing of three places andsearched villages lying within five kilometers radius of the crime scene.At least 14 people have been arrested in the rape case, the sources added.
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Earlier today, Federal Minister for Water Resources and PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker in the National Assembly, Faisal Vawda, hadmet Prime Minister Imran Khan where he had raised the rape incidents of aminor girl, Marwah, in Karachi and a mother of two children in Lahore.
Faisal Vawda had said in a statement that PM Imran Khan had taken notice ofthe rape incidents took place in Karachi and Lahore. He had said that suchincidents were shameful for the civilised socities and tasked lawenforcement agencies (LEAs) to immediately arrest the culprits.
