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Tiktoker sexual assault case

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Pakistan woman Tiktoker sexual assault case: 24 suspects arrested

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Aug 20, 2021, at 11:16 pm

Lahore: Pakistan's Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari said on Friday that 24 men had been taken into custody through geo-fencing and matching record from National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for sexually assaulting a young woman Tiktoker in Lahore on Aug 14, a day when the nation observed its Independence Day.

Videos of the incident went viral on social media.

Mazari tweeted: " MoHR following with Punjab police on the condemnable Minar-i-Pakistan Lahore incident. So far 24 men were arrested through geo fencing & NADRA match. More arrests are expected today. On issue of police negligence/failure IG ordered inquiry is underway by Add IG."

Pakistan officials said senior police officers had been suspended for negligence and delaying response in dealing with the incident.

“We have suspended SHO and SDPO whereas Divisional SP, SSP Operations and DIG Operations Lahore have been removed from their posts,” Inspector General Inam Ghani wrote on Twitter.

MoHR following with Punjab police on the condemnable Minar-i-Pakistan Lahore incident. So far 24 men were arrested through geo fencing & NADRA match. More arrests are expected today. On issue of police negligence/failure IG ordered inquiry is underway by Add IG.
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) August 20, 2021

Cop:

We have suspended SHO and SDPO whereas Divisional SP, SSP Operations and DIG Operations Lahore have been removed from their posts. Strict departmental action will be taken once Enquiry Committee submits its detailed report on the role and response of other officers in sha Allah. pic.twitter.com/RJzwbS1Lan
— Inam Ghani QPM & Bar, PSP (@InamGhani) August 20, 2021

Police earlier registered a case against nearly 400 suspects for harassing and assaulting a woman at Azadi Flyover in Lahore city.

The first-information report (FIR) was registered under sections 354-A (assault or use of criminal force against woman and stripping her of her clothes), 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to commit the theft), 147 (rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Pakistan Penal Code, reports Dawn News.

#PakistanWOman #Pakistan #Tiktokersexualassaultcase

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