Elderly, married women raped in separate incidents in Punjab

LAHORE: In two separate incidents of sexual abuse, a married woman and an 80-year-old lady were allegedly raped in Punjab province on Friday, ARY NEWS reported.

According to details, two armed men entered a residence in a neighbourhood in district Okara of the province and robbed a family of their belongings. Besides committing the robbery, the suspects tortured the family members and later sexually abused a married woman in the house.

The police confirmed the gang rape of the woman by the two suspects and said that they had registered a case on the complaint of the woman under rape and robbery charges.

In a separate incident in Kamalia city of the Toba Tek Singh district, an 80-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by a suspect named Bilal.

The suspect entered the woman’s house where she used to live alone in the night and raped her.

The accused ran away after the incident as police said that they have launched a search operation to arrest him. Meanwhile, DPO Faisalabad has taken notice of the incident and directed the authorities concerned to bring the perpetrator to book.

In one such incident, a woman was raped during a robbery attempt in Faisalabad, last year.

10 men barged into a house located in Islam Nagar, a locality in Samundri, Faisalabad, while one of the men of the muggers’ group raped the woman.

On September 9, last year, the woman along with her children was waiting for help on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway after her car ran out of fuel when she was forcefully brought out of the car at gunpoint and gang-raped in Gujjarpura area on the outskirts of the provincial.