Staff Reporter
Islamabad
After 19 days and eight special teams were formed by the Punjab Police to arrest Abid Ali, one of the two men sought for his involvement in the gang-rape of a woman on the M11 motorway, he remains at large.
On September 9, two armed men had gang-raped a woman in front of her children after her car broke down and the family was stranded on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway.
The assailants fled after the alleged assault, also reportedly taking her money and other valuables with them. Abid — the main suspect whose sketches with different hairstyles and facial hair were released by police almost 10 days ago — slipped through the authorities’ fingers thrice, sources informed Geo News. A Rs2.5-million reward was announced by the Punjab government to anyone who had information on the alleged rapist. The eight special teams — comprising personnel from the Punjab Police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), Special Branch, and the Quick Response Force — almost caught him thrice in Kasur, Nankana Sahib, and Sheikhupura but he managed to evade police each time, sources added.
