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FAISALABAD: The Punjab police on Monday arrested Abid Malhi, the main suspect in the Lahore motorway gang-rape case from Faisalabad.According to police, Lahore motorway gang-rape suspect Abid Malhi has been arrested from Faisalabad and will be shifted to Lahore.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) for Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill taking to Twitter also confirmed the arrest of the prime suspect, Abid Malhi, involved in the gang-rape of a woman on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway.
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 on the outskirts of the provincial.
The police have already arrested another prime suspect named Shafqat, accused in a motorway gang-rape case in Lahore on September 14.
An anti-terrorism court sent the co-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.
Narrating the horrific incident, the accused, Shafqat, told investigators that they were intoxicated at the time of the incident and initially planned to commit a robbery. Abid smashed the glasses of the vehicle and injured his hand in the process, he said adding that after looting the victim they decided to sexually assault her.
“We decided to bring her off-road and after stiff resistance, took away her children to the nearby bushes to drag the woman there.”
“The woman then followed us,” he said adding that they raped the woman in the bushes.
