LAHORE: A 17-year-old woman was kidnapped by armed gunmen in broad daylight as she was happening a bike alongside together with her brother to attend a Matric examination close to the Shad Bagh neighbourhood in outdated Lahore, police mentioned Sunday.
CCTV footage of the incident confirmed the younger woman, who’s seen clad in a veil, travelling alongside together with her brother when a automobile, a Suzuki Wagon R, intercepts them.
The video reveals two armed males disembarked from the automotive, one in all them dragged the woman into the automobile and the second pointed a gun at her brother, stopping him from rescuing his sister.
The incident reportedly came about on Saturday, Shad Bagh police mentioned.
It additional confirmed the registration of a primary info report (FIR) towards unidentified suspects on the grievance of the woman’s father, Zulfiqar Ali, beneath Part 365-B (kidnapping, abducting or inducing girl to compel for marriage and many others) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
In the meantime, Kamran Adil, a deputy inspector basic (DIG) of operations at Lahore police, informed the media the police have detained some suspects and had been interrogating them.
Within the FIR, Ali, the daddy, mentioned his daughter was kidnapped on the idea of “ill-intention”. In keeping with Adil, One of many suspects seen within the footage was the woman’s ex-fiancé.
Incidents of the kidnapping of younger ladies have been reported prior to now as properly. In a single such incident, two minor ladies had been purportedly kidnapped from the Ichhra neighbourhood.
In keeping with their household, the sisters — recognized as 11-year-old Ayesha Gulzar and 12-year-old Fatima Gulzar — went to attend the college, nevertheless, didn’t return residence within the afternoon.
“One in all them is a grade 5 scholar and the opposite is in grade six at a neighborhood faculty in Ichhra,” the household mentioned.
Police obtained a proper grievance from the dad and mom and mentioned they might examine the case from all angles.
DIG Adil additionally took discover of the incident and directed the Mannequin City superintendent of police to right away take motion towards the suspects and recuperate the women.