SHEIKHUPURA: In a heartbreaking incident, A woman committed suicide by consuming poisonous pills, due to gang-raped by three security guards.
According to the police officials the victim went to Children’s Hospital Sheikhupura to inquired about the health of her niece. She was called to a separate room on the pretext of her niece’s check-up and was gang-raped by three security guards.
The victim woman committed suicide by consuming poisonous pills, The police claimed to apprehended one alleged rapist, who has confessed the crime, the investigators said that efforts are being made for the arrest of other two security guards named Adil and Hafiz.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz took notice of the incident and sought reports from the concerned authorities.
District Police Officer (DPO) Bilal Zafar Sheikh said that initially, the police registered a kidnapping case on complaint of the victim as she went missing but later incorporate rape related clauses in the FIR.
The DPO said that the special investigation team under the supervision of Additional SP Farhat Abbas. He said that special branch of security company employees, no clearance from other secret agencies.
He said that employees of a security company deployed at the Children’s Hospital Sheikhupura were not cleared by Special Branch and other secret agencies.
