Lahore: A judicial magistrate was informed by the police investigators on Wednesday that the sections related to rape had been added in the first information report (FIR) registered against five suspects involved in the abduction of four girls of Hanjarwal.
The investigation police aubmitted an application to Judicial Magistrate Ayyaz Rafique Lone, stating that they suspected that one of the girls had been subjected to rape.
Therefore, sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 377 (punishment for unnatural offences) were added to the FIR, they (police) said.
The investigating officer requested the magistrate for an extension in the suspects' physical remand for conducting DNA tests. Acknowledging the police request as plausible, the magistrate extended the physical remand of the five suspects for three days.
He directed police to produce the suspects again on August 14.
The four girls, aged between eight and 14, had gone missing in Lahore on July 30. A case was registered on the complaint of the father of two of the girls.
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