GUJRANWALA – A 9-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and sexuallyassaulted by two men in the fifth most populous city, police said Sunday.
The police said two men, Faizan and Ali Naveed, after taking the minor girlto the house located in Shahzada Colony in Gujranwala allegedly gang-rapedher. The nine-year-old girl was then shifted to the Civil Hospital for amedical checkup.
The police arrested both accused on the complaint of relatives of thevictim girl and further proceedings are underway.
On 13 March, four men arrested for sexually assaulting a woman in theNishtar Colony area of Lahore. The victim alleged that last night, the fourmen took her to a house where she was allegedly gang-raped.
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In a historic decision on Saturday, an anti-terrorism court has sentencedtwo men, Abid Ali and Shafqat Ali, to death for raping a woman in front ofher children on a major highway between two Punjab cities. Both were handedthe death sentence under Article 376 and life imprisonment under 365 A ofthe Pakistan Penal Code. They were also sentenced to 14 years in prisonseparately. The court also fined Rs50, 000 each and directed to confiscatethe properties of both.
