TOBA TEK SINGH: Shorkot City police in Jhang on September 23 registered a case against five teens and arrested three of them for allegedly kidnapping their five friends and forcing them to rape each other over a quarrel.
Police spokesperson told the media that five class IX students were on their way to tuition centre on Monday afternoon when their five friends forcibly took them into a house where they tortured the five nine-graders with plastic pipes and sticks and also forced them to rape each other.
‘Y’, father of a victim, claimed in his FIR registered under sections 375-A, 365 and 337-V of Pakistan Penal Code that when his son did not return home after tuition, he along with fathers of four other children started a search and found them in a house locked from inside near Officers Colony on Pattan Road while the suspects managed their escape.
The spokesperson claimed that three of the nominated suspects were arrested and raids were underway to nab two others.
He said the suspects took revenge for a quarrel that occurred a day ago with the victims in the football ground.
Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2025
