Lahore Police is tracing hundreds of suspects assaulted and harassed A woman TikToker and her accomplices at Greater Iqbal Park in the city on Independence Day, the city police chief said on Wednesday.
In a statement, capital city police officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said the suspects were being identified through videos of the incident shared on social media, and several photographs and videos from the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra). ) have been sent. ) to ensure their identity.
Lorry Adda Police did on Tuesday case registered A case has been registered against 400 suspects for harassing and assaulting a woman at Azadi flyover.
The incident happened on August 14 when hundreds of youths were celebrating Independence Day in the park. The police swung into action on Tuesday after the video of the incident went viral. sparked outrage on social media.
According to the statement, CCPO Dogar ordered the police to arrest the suspects who appeared in the video clip and said that the perpetrators would be “traceable soon”.
“Those who misbehave with the girl will be dealt with strictly,” he said.
Footage is being acquired from Safe City cameras, DHA and TikTok clips, a police official asked not to be named as investigation is on. don.com. He said that at least 10 suspects have been identified and they will be nabbed soon and more suspects will be identified soon.
On Wednesday, the Lahore Police also appealed to the public to help identify and arrest the suspects involved in the incident.
FIR registered under sections 354-A (assault or criminal force against woman and her stripping), 382 (theft after preparation to cause death, hurt or restraint), 147 (rioting) Went. ) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Azhar Mashwani, the Punjab Chief Minister’s focal person for digital media, said on Wednesday that “strong and non-bailable clauses” have been added to the FIR.
He said that Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has ordered the police to arrest all the culprits at the earliest.
Meanwhile, PTI leader Zulfi Bukhari said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had personally spoken to the Inspector General of Police of Punjab about the incident. “Police is catching all the culprits involved” [the] Misbehavior with female TikToker in Lahore,” he tweeted.
attacked by hundreds
According to the First Information Report (FIR) of the incident, the complainant said that she, along with six accomplices, was making a video near Minar-e-Pakistan on Independence Day, when around 300 to 400 people “attacked us”. “.
He said that he and his associates tried hard to escape from the crowd. Sensing the situation, the security guard of the park opened the gate of the enclosure around Minar-e-Pakistan, the FIR quoted him as saying.
“However, the crowd was huge and people were crossing the fence and coming towards us. People were pushing and pulling me to such an extent that they tore my clothes. Many people tried to help me. But the crowd was too much and they kept throwing me in the air,” she said.
He further said that his associates were also assaulted. During the conflict, her ring and earrings were “forcibly taken”, apart from the mobile phone of one of her accomplices, her identity card and Rs 15,000 on her person.
“Unknown people attacked us violently,” the complainant said.
The latest incident comes after a renewed focus on violence against women in Pakistan, noor mukadami And quratul ain In July.
In the same month, a video went viral on social media in which six men were seen harassing a couple in Islamabad. The men held the couple at gunpoint, forced them to undress and then thrashed them. Apart from this, he also verbally and physically abused the couple by doing obscene acts.
four suspects were later Arrested.
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