RAWALPINDI: A taxi driver have been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in front of her son in Attock.
According to the Rawalpindi police, the victim had lodged a complaint at the Naseerabad police station two days earlier.
The victim lodged a First Information Report (FIR) stating that she took her son to a spiritual healer as he was not feeling well. She had hired a taxi to go to Attock and return home at Naseerabad.
The woman said on the way back to Rawalpindi, the taxi driver identified as Iftikhar stopped the vehicle at a deserted place and held her at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her.
The suspect threatened to kill her if she disclosed it to anybody. She alleged that the suspect beat her son and also snatched her mobile phone.
The suspect dropped the woman and her son along a roadside in Chowki Hameeda area and fled. She noted the registration number of the vehicle and informed the police.
The Naseerabad police had registered an FIR after the initial medical examination report. The taxi driver was arrested after a special police team was formed by the Rawalpindi police and a case was registered against him.
