LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday approved the judicial remand and sent the key suspect in the gangrape of a woman on the Lahore motorway to jail.
The suspect Abid Ali Malhi was presented in court after he was arrested after more than one month on the run. The court approved his fourteen day judicial remand and sent him to jail.
Punjab police arrested Abid Malhi from Faisalabad and shifted him to Lahore for further interrogation. The other suspect in the case Shafqat is already in jail on judicial remand.
The Intelligence Bureau (IB), Special Branch of the Police and other law enforcement agencies had sent a tip-off to Punjab Police about the whereabouts of Malhi he was apprehended in Faisalabad. Malhi has managed to evade arrest four times and has been on the run ever since the incident.
Punjab police arrested Abid Malhi by conducting a raid at Manga Mandi near Faisalabad. Police conduct a raid at Tandlianwala Tehsil but he managed to escape before the police reached there. Later, Police conducted a raid at his relative’s house in Manga Mandi and apprehended him.
On September 9, the woman along with her children was waiting for help on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway after her car ran out of fuel when she was forcefully brought out of the car at gunpoint and gang-raped in Gujjarpura area.
An anti-terrorism court sent the suspect in the motorway gang-rape case, Shafqat, to judicial lockup for 14 days and directed the jail authorities to hold his identification parade under special arrangements.
