A judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts on Monday granted Lahore police a further four-day physical remand of two prime suspects in the alleged gang-rape of an Azeri woman.
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magistrate → grant → woman
The 20-year-old Azerbaijan national had travelled to Pakistan for business purposes and was allegedly gang-raped by three men in a rented flat of a private housing society near Raiwind on the night between September 25 and Sept 26.
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national → travel → September
Police apprehended two of the three men, who were sent on a six-day physical remand on Sept 29.
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who → apprehend → Sept
As the six-day remand period expired on Monday, the suspects were produced before Judicial Magistrate Azhar Mahmood.
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suspects → expire → Mahmood
The investigating officer told the court that the investigation was still underway; therefore, further physical remand was required.
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remand → investigate → court
The magistrate granted the request and extended the physical remand of both suspects by four days.
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magistrate → grant → days
He directed the police to produce the suspects again on Oct 9.
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He → direct → Oct
Earlier, a sessions court extended the interim pre-arrest bail of a female suspect in the alleged gang-rape case.
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court → extend → case
The suspect appeared before the court on Monday at the expiry of her bail period.
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suspect → appear → period
The woman, one of the two female suspects accused of facilitating the alleged act, had secured pre-arrest bail till October 5 on Sept 29.
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woman → accuse → Sept
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rafaqat Ali extended the pre-arrest bail of the woman until Oct 13.
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Ali → extend → Oct
The court asked whether the investigation was complete, to which a police official said the police needed more time.
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police → ask → time
In her statement, the complainant had named two women with whom she had met before the men accused of raping her gathered at an apartment.
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men → name → apartment
The other woman was sent on a three-day physical remand last week; however, on Saturday, at the end of her physical remand, the court sent her on judicial remand for 14 days till Oct 17.
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court → send → Oct
The Defence C police had registered a first information report (FIR) against three unidentified suspects on Sept 26 on the Azeri woman’s complaint.
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police → register → complaint
In her statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the survivor said she had arrived in Islamabad from Istanbul on Sept 13 and stayed in Faisalabad for five days before travelling to Lahore.
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she → say → Lahore
“I had a plan to visit Skardu, but I could not go there because I was alone,” she said.
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she → have → Skardu
According to her, on the day of the alleged incident, she messaged two women, asking them to meet her in Lahore.
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she → accord → Lahore
At around 11pm, she went to a cafe where she met one of them — the woman sent on judicial remand — and later accompanied her to a house in Bahria Town to meet the other, who secured pre-arrest bail on Monday.
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who → go → Monday
The complainant told the magistrate that at around 2am, a white car arrived carrying two men, one of whom was sent on remand last week (first suspect).
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one → tell → remand
Later, they moved to an apartment where two more men arrived, one of whom was the second person sent on remand (second suspect), while she did not know the name of the other man.
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she → move → man
According to the complainant, in a separate room, the woman on bail took between Rs20,000 and Rs30,000 from the first suspect, saying the money was for a party, while the woman on judicial remand also joined them.
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woman → accord → them
The Azeri woman said she made it clear that she “did not need money or alcohol”.
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she → say → money
She alleged that the first suspect tried to touch her and locked her in a separate room.
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suspect → allege → room
When she asked about her friends, she was told that they had left.
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they → ask → friends
When she tried to leave, the complainant said she was told that she could not go because her friends had taken money.
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friends → try → money
The victim said she offered to pay the men, but they told her that she would have to drink alcohol with them before they would let her go.
She alleged that the three men raped her.
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men → say → her
She further stated that the suspects then put her in a car and threw her out at an unknown location, while threatening her with dire consequences if she approached the police.
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she → state → police
According to her statement, the suspects also took her handbag containing Rs200,000, an iPhone 13 Pro Max and another mobile phone.
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suspects → accord → Rs200,000
She then requested some people present there to help her call the police emergency number 15, following which the police arrived.
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police → request → which
It is the second such case in which a foreign woman was reportedly gang-raped in the Defence C police station area during the last four months.
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woman → rap → months
In June, two foreign women, nationals of the Netherlands and Venezuela, were allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted in the Defence C police station area.
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women → abduct → area
According to the FIR, the women were abducted by five suspects, including a close relative of a senior political personality, who demanded ransom and subjected them to sexual assault during their captivity.
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who → accord → captivity
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