ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The city police are yet unable to arrest a man for his alleged involvement in an attempt to kill a girl, lying unconscious at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences since November 24.

The Aabpara police conducted raids twice on the house of the accused, a contractor by profession, in Lahore to arrest him in connection with the case registered in the police station on December 25.

The girl was found unconscious on the stairs of the Musawat building behind Zero Point. she was shifted to the Pims and lying still unconscious in the medical lCU ward.

The identification of the girl, said to be in 20s, is still a mystery for the police along with the circumstance in which she suffered injures.

The police said nobody had contacted them about her disappearance and identification. Nothing was found from the girl to identify her.

The police wanted to record her statement for registering the case, but because of her long unconsciousness the case against the accused was registered on the complaint of the police.

The accused is a resident of Lahore and has been a contractor of various government buildings.

The preliminary investigation suggested that the contractor along with another person threw the girl down from the flat at the fourth floor of the building.

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