Two held for 'gang raping' woman in Faisalabad

• Police say search for other suspects underway.
• Victim went to Faisalabad to meet her friend. 
• FIR says she had altercation with her friend. 
  

FAISALABAD: Police on Saturday arrested two suspects allegedly involved in subjecting a woman to gang rape in Painsra town of Faisalabad.

Police said the victim, who is a resident of Lahore, had come to Faisalabad to meet a friend named Muhammad Waseem. 

An official of Thekriwala police station said a first information report (FIR) was lodged and the search for other suspects was underway, adding that two of the suspects have been arrested. 

In the FIR, the victim said she went to meet her friend Waseem on August 14 in the evening in Painsra. However, she mentioned that they both had an argument after which Waseem left for his house, leaving the victim alone. 

"I went to Waseem's house myself and asked him to drop me to the bus station. However, we couldn't find a bus and went back to Painsra chowk where we had an argument again," she said. 

The victim, in the FIR, said that Waseem then called his friend Abdul Raheem and requested him to give him accommodation for two hours till the bus came.

The woman said a suspect, Imran alias Mani, accompanied by three to four accomplices entered the Abdul Raheem's house, thrashed Waseem and tied him in another room. Then, she alleged, Imran and his accomplices gang raped her.

She also alleged that the suspects had snatched their mobile phones as well. She suspected that Abdul Raheem and Waseem were also involved in the crime, the victim said, requesting to bring the culprits to justice.