MUZAFFARGARH: Following Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s directive, the police arrested a suspect on Thursday in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old boy in a mosque in Bukhi Chowk of Sanawan town on Wednesday. After media reports and the chief minister’s order, District Police Officer Hasnain Haider instructed the Sanawan station house officer to arrest the suspect. The assault on the boy occurred during Aitkaf in the mosque, leading to the Sanawan police registering a case against the suspect (name withheld) on Wednesday. The incident took place in the Sanawan Bukhi Chowk mosque, where both the boy and the suspect were observing Aitkaf. The prayer leader of the mosque alleged that the suspect had threatened him with consequences for alerting the police. The survivor, a student learning the Quran, was taken to the hospital for a medical examination.
(Daily Dawn)
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