May 27, 2007	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 10, 1428

LAHORE, May 26: The Japanese embassy has approached the Lahore police with a complaint on behalf of two women that they had been subjected to rape. The police registered a case and launched a manhunt leading to four arrests.

The Garden Town police on Saturday arrested an accused over the rape of the two Japanese women at a guesthouse in Faisal Town.

Garden Town ASP Rai Ejaz Ahmed said that Fahad Rai, one of the main accused, had been arrested in addition to the earlier arrest of Jalal, Adil Mansoor and Liaquat, a servant of absconder Umer Irshad.

The two women — Sheizuka (23) and Kei (22) — alleged that they were lured, confined, drugged and raped by four men on May 21.

Both the victims with a Japanese man, Steve, approached their country’s embassy in Islamabad to register their complaint. On the intervention of the embassy, police registered a case against the accused.

One of the accused, Adil, confessed to raping Sheizuka under the influence of liquor.

The women had enrolled in an Urdu language diploma at that Government College University had been staying in a rented home in Model Town for five months.

Adil, a real estate agent and resident of Cavalry Ground, said he met the women at the home of the late actor Mohammad Ali. Steve, who shoots documentaries, introduced them to him, he claimed.