Upper Dir police arrest five over assault of teenage boy
A Wari Circle DSP confirmed the arrests to Dawn; the case was filed on October 30 over an incident dated October 25, and one suspect is still at large.
Police in Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested five of the six suspects wanted over the alleged assault and intimidation of a teenage boy, a purported video of which was circulated on social media.
Wari Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police Fakhr-i-Alam confirmed the arrests to Dawn on Sunday.
The first information report, dated October 30, was registered by Wari police on the boy's complaint and has been seen by Dawn. It places the incident on October 25.
The FIR invokes Section 364-A of the Pakistan Penal Code, which deals with kidnapping or abducting an underage person, Section 342 on wrongful confinement and Section 506 on criminal intimidation. Dawn's report did not give the boy's age, the names of the men arrested, or a description of what the video showed.
One suspect remains at large. The report did not say what steps were being taken to trace him, nor whether any of the five arrested men had been produced before a court.
Separately, Shalimar police in Lahore arrested a man named Zohaib for allegedly luring a six-year-old boy to his home and attempting to assault him on Sunday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. A police spokesperson told APP that a case had been registered against him after officers responded to information and mounted an operation.
In Faisalabad, police registered a case and set up special teams to arrest a suspect after an alleged assault on a minor girl, Minute Mirror reported. The case was lodged on the complaint of the girl's mother. City Police Officer Faisalabad took notice of the incident, a crime scene unit collected forensic evidence and the girl was under care at Allied Hospital, according to the outlet.
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