Motorway gangrape victim identifies prime suspects

LAHORE: The victim who was subjected to sexual assault on the Lahore motorway last month has picked out two prime suspects during an identification parade.

The two prime suspects named Abid Malhi and Shafqat were identified inside a Camp Jail in Lahore where the suspects were brought in front of the rape victim who identified the two accused.

Abid was sent to jail on a 14-day remand by an anti-terrorism court following his arrest on 13th October while Shafqat was in police custody on physical remand. The court had ordered the police to hold the identification parade of the suspects inside the jail.

The incident took place last month on 9th September when the woman was raped by two men as she was waiting for her husband on the Lahore motorway after her car ran out of fuel. She with her children when she was forcefully brought out of the car at gunpoint and gang-raped.