Key suspects arrested for allegedly assaulting, shooting teenager

MUZAFFARGARH: Police claimed to have apprehended two suspects in Muzaffargarh for allegedly assaulting and shooting a teenaged boy, police said on Tuesday.

Police sources said the arrests come a day after the victim’s father lodged the first information report (FIR) with the police, alleging that three men had attempted to rape his son and shot him for putting up resistance.

According to the FIR, two of the accused offered the boy to come with them to an eatery to eat fish.

 When they arrived at the place, a third man joined them and the suspects forcefully took the victim to a forest where they attempted to assault him.

However, the boy put up resistance, one of the suspects shot him in the hip and fled the spot with his accomplices, leaving the victim in an injured condition.

The injured boy was found by passersby, who heard him screaming and then informed his father.

The victim’s father got him admitted to the Civil Hospital and informed the police. The FIR, filed subsequently, was lodged under Articles 324, 377, 511 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

A police official said that police had apprehended the key suspects within 24 hours of the report being filed.

The suspects had been remanded to police custody for four days by a local court, he added.

He said police would arrest the third suspect soon and will also recover the weapon used to shoot the victim. The injured boy is currently being treated at Nishtar Hospital Muzaffargarh.