LAHORE: A judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts granted police 14-day judicial remand of four suspects, including one related to a senior political figure, in a case of alleged kidnapping and rape of two foreign women.
One of those two women is a national of the Netherlands and the other of Venezuela, and a case of their alleged abduction and sexual assault was registered on July 2.
Subsequently, police had arrested four of the suspects and were initially granted their five-day physical remand on July 3. The suspects’ remand was extended twice in the following days, last on July 13.
They were produced before Judicial Magistrate Azhar Mahmood on Friday, following the expiry of their physical remand.
The investigating officer (IO) submitted a progress report before the court and requested that the suspects now be sent on judicial remand.
