LAHORE: After yet another series of child abuse cases in Kasur, the Crime Control Department (CCD) arrested a serial rapist who had allegedly raped two minor girls and sexually assaulted another, leaving the victims with lifelong physical and psychological trauma.
According to the gynecologists, treating the minor girls, aged between four and seven years, the heinous nature of the crime may alter the children’s brain development and affect their adulthood if timely psychological treatment is not provided. The doctors reached these findings, keeping in view the scale and brutality of the sexual crimes as the three minor girls were recovered with inevitable trauma from abandoned places during dark nights.
Disturbing police reports revealed that a seven-year-old girl was found lying in a pool of blood in agricultural fields on Sept 21, 2025, in the jurisdictions of Kasur Saddar Police Station. Similarly, four-year-old girl child was found raped in an abandoned plot on Feb 3, 2026, in the limits of Mustafabad Police Station.
In another incident, a six-year-old girl was found in a semi-conscious state in the fields, again in the jurisdiction of Saddar Police Station on Feb 13, 2026. In this case, the suspect had allegedly attempted rape but fled the scene after spotting police and some local residents who were searching for the missing girl.
The suspect had raped two minor girls, assaulted another
Reports further suggested that all three minor victims were recovered from locations approximately one to two kilometers away from their homes. Two of the girls were spotted by a security guard and a passer-by, crying and weeping in severe pain.
A senior police official stated that the rapist would roam randomly to pick up minor girls before taking them to nearby deserted places with the intention of committing rape.
The incident on Feb 3 received significant media attention when a minor rape victim was found in the jurisdiction of Mustafabad Police Station and shifted to the DHQ Hospital Kasur. Due to her critical condition, doctors referred her to the Lahore General Hospital.
Kasur District Police Officer (DPO) Essa Sukhera visited the child at the Lahore General Hospital and he submitted a preliminary report of the incident to the inspector general of police and the CM’s Office.
After regaining consciousness, the victim provided some clues about her residential location and her family was traced within 10 hours of the incident through the efforts of the police.
The DPO informed the authorities that district police teams were already in the middle of investigations into the two earlier rape cases when, on Feb 13, 2026, police received a 15 emergency call regarding the kidnap of a third minor girl. This triggered an alert and prompted police to expand the scope of operations. The victim was recovered from the fields in a traumatised state but fortunately not raped.
The officer said that district police shifted their entire focus toward a prime suspect after the father of one of the girls informed the DPO Kasur about the possible involvement of an unidentified individual who had visited his shop. Acting immediately, investigators achieved a major breakthrough after obtaining the mobile phone number of the prime suspect from a local shop where he had visited to transfer money before kidnapping the victim. The call data record (CDR) of the suspect’s mobile phone revealed his presence at all three locations from where the girls were kidnapped and assaulted. As per the CDR, the presence of the prime suspect was found in the Mustafabad area for the majority of the time, confirming his residence there close to the Feb 3 incident.
The Feb 3 case was also transferred to the Crime Control Department (CCD), which had already conducted comprehensive profiling of approximately 400 houses located within a one square kilometer radius from the crime scene to the home of the rape victim girl. The DNA samples of nearly 80 suspects were sent to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) for analysis. During the investigation, the prime suspect, who was a resident of the Mustafabad area near the incident site, was found missing from his home.
The CCD also obtained footage from a private CCTV camera installed at a local shop near the house of the rape victim. The footage captured the presence of the prime suspect, further strengthening doubts about his direct involvement.
The official said that the CCD took into custody a close relative of the suspect, who contacted him by phone and summoned him to a meeting at a specified location. When the suspect arrived, the CCD team, already deployed at the spot, took him into custody. The DNA samples of the prime suspect matched with both rape incidents and confirmed his presence in the third incident through technical data.
During the investigation, the suspect confessed to committing the crimes, stating that he had divorced his wife several months earlier and was living alone.
Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2026
