- Three other suspects already under police interrogation.
- Victim’s medical examination conducted, police say.
- Authorities are now awaiting the forensic report.
FAISALABAD: The police have made major progress in the recent incident of alleged gang-rape of a woman near the Faisalabad motorway by arresting the main suspect involved in the horrific crime.
A woman was allegedly gang-raped in front of her husband in the outskirts of Faisalabad. Three other suspect are already under police custody.
Police said that the victim’s medical examination had been conducted, and geo-fencing of the crime scene was also completed. Authorities are now awaiting the forensic report.
Law enforcement agencies confirmed that the prime suspect had been taken into custody, and further investigations were underway to arrest the remaining suspects involved in this heinous crime.
The disturbing incident came to light on Thursday but the according to police officials, it occurred place three days ago when armed robbers intercepted a couple travelling on the motorway.
The crime allegedly took place in Chak No 62 JB Channan on March 25, 2025, when the couple was returning home from Agriculture University Hostel on a motorcycle.
According to the first information report (FIR), two armed assailants intercepted the couple near a motorway bridge and held them at gunpoint.
They snatched Rs800 in cash, a mobile phone, and the woman’s identity card before taking the husband to an adjacent sugarcane field, where they tied him up.
The suspects then took the woman to the same field, and one of them called a third accomplice on a motorcycle. The third suspect, described as tall and well-built, arrived at the scene.
A case was registered against unidentified suspects under robbery and sexual assault charges and launched a search operation.
In the first information report (FIR) of the case, the rape victim’s husband stated that he initially searched for the suspects himself before reporting the incident to the police the next day via the emergency helpline.
The victim’s medical examination was done, and DNA samples were sent for forensic analysis after the crime was reported
It must be noted that in August 2024, two armed robbers allegedly assaulted a married woman in Faisalabad’s Chak No. 34 JB, located in Sandal Bar, after looting cash and mobile phones from her husband — suggesting a similar modus operandi.
In September 2020, two robbers gang-raped a mother of two on the motorway within Gujjarpura police’s jurisdiction.
The woman, along with her two children, was driving to Gujranwala in her car when she was forced to stop at the Gujjarpura section of the motorway after running out of fuel.
According to reports, she immediately called a relative and sent him her location, who asked her to also dial the Motorway Police helpline — 130 — from which she reportedly received no response.
In the meantime, two robbers approached the car, broke the window, and took the woman and her children to nearby bushes where they raped her repeatedly in front of the children. They also snatched her purse carrying Rs100,000 in cash, one bracelet, car registration papers, and three ATM cards.
Pakistan has been debating harsher punishments for sex offences following public indignation over high-profile cases.
Lawmakers had considered introducing public hanging of those convicted of the sexual abuse and murder of children but it could have cost Pakistan preferential trade status with the European Union.
Fewer than 3% of sexual assault or rape cases result in a conviction in Pakistan, according to the Karachi-based group War Against Rape.
