Lahore:
Police have released 155 suspects, arrested for their alleged involvement in the sexual assault of a YouTuber girl on Independence Day at the historic Minar-i-Pakistan, just after the victim and her group members could not recognise them throughout an identification parade, a Punjab government official mentioned on Tuesday.
The incident, which sparked nationwide outrage and drew international condemnation, took location on August 14 when hundreds of youngsters have been celebrating Pakistan’s Independence Day at Azadi Chowk close to Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore.
In viral videos circulated on social media, hundreds of young guys can be seen throwing the girl in the air for entertaining, dragging her, tearing her clothing and molesting her.
Politicians from all parties and members of civil society have strongly condemned what a lot of of them referred to as “sexual terrorism”. Lahore Police had registered a case against 400 unidentified guys for assaulting the girl and her companions, and later arrested 161 people today in the case.
“The identification parade of 161 arrested suspects was conducted at the Camp Jail Lahore during the last few days under the supervision of a judicial magistrate. The girl and her team members (could) identify only six suspects after which the police told the magistrate that 155 suspects were no more required in this case and subsequently they were released from jail,” a Punjab government official told PTI on Tuesday.
The six suspects identified by the girl have been sent to judicial custody till September 9, he mentioned.
Some of the suspects alleged ahead of the court that the girl herself invited them to the Minar-i-Pakistan to make videos and that she was accountable for what had occurred to her.
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