LAHORE: A Karachi woman was raped by a man she befriended on PUBG, an online game, the police said Monday.
According to police, the woman became friends with the suspect, identified as Haris, on the gaming application. “Last week, he told me to come to travel to Lahore and said that we would get married,” the victim said.
The woman reached Lahore on November 23. “Haris took me to a hotel and raped me for three consecutive days. When I forced him to marry me, he beat me up,” she told the police.
On November 26, the suspect abandoned the woman at a railway station. “I met two other men there who promised to get me a job,” the complainant said. “But they too raped me in a car.”
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On Sunday, an FIR under sections 376 (punishment for rape), 109 (punishment of abetment if the Act abetted committed In consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment), and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered at the Cantt police station.
According to the SHO, a medical examination of the woman will be conducted. The police are, on the other hand, conducting raids to arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible.
