TOBA TEK SINGH: Razaabad police of Faisalabad arrested a youth, Abubakar, who made a bogus call to police emergency 15 and complained that a group of 10 men had entered his house and they were gang-raping his father’s sister.

Heavy police force reached the place but no such incident had taken place at the given address.

Police traced the caller and arrested him.

ACID ATTACK: Two unidentified men threw acid on a youth at Jaranwala, Faisalabad.

Reports said Maqsood was going somewhere near Chak 119-GB when the suspects threw acid on him with the help of a bottle. Rescue 1122 shifted Ahmad to the Jaranwala Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2025

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