LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Monday extended physical remand of five suspects in the abduction case of four girls of Hanjarwal.

The police produced the suspects before the court and requested for their further custody to complete the investigation.

The investigating officer also told the court that there was a possibility of sexual assault on one of the girls, however, final determination could be possible after the DNA test report, which was still awaited.

The magistrate extended the physical remand of the suspects for two days and directed the IO to submit the DNA report of the girl on the next hearing.

On Friday, the magistrate had allowed the recovered girls to go with their families. The police had recovered the girls from Sahiwal with the arrest of the suspects including Qasim Ali, Shahzad and his wife, Naeem Shahzad, Asif and his wife, and Shaukat Ali.

Hanjarwal police had registered the FIR on the complaint of Irfan Ali, the father of Anam (10) and Kinza (11). He alleged her daughters along with Pinki (14) and Ayesha (8), the daughters of his neighbour, were kidnapped.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2021