Tutor Rapes Minor Boy In Lodhran

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BAHAWALPUR: A tutor allegedly raped his 13-year-old student at Basti Baghwala of village Khanpur Ghalwan in the limits of the Qureshiwala Police Station in district Lodhran.

According to Ladhran police spokesperson Bahadur Khan, the tutor called his student from his house and took him to nearby fields on the pretext of collecting money from somebody.

The suspect allegedly raped the boy in the fields where the victim’s screams attracted the people around him who reached to rescue him while the suspect fled.

Qureshiwala police, on the complaint of the victim’s father, registered a rape case and arrested the suspect. The boy was sent to the District Headquarters Hospital Lodhran for a medical examination.

Published in Dawn, November 3rd, 2024

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