KASUR: In another episode of an alleged fake encounter, Punjab police shot a shopkeeper in his private parts after he allegedly raped a minor girl at his shop in the Phoolnagar area of Kasur district.
This is the third such incident reported from Kasur district in the last four weeks. Police said that on August 23, an alleged child abuser was injured after he accidentally shot himself in his private parts while attempting to draw a pistol at the raiding police party in Zaheerabad Colony of Kasur.
Similarly, in July, another man accused of harassing a minor in Kasur’s Shah Inayat Colony also accidentally shot himself in the same manner.
In the recent case, the police took “action” after a disturbing video went viral on social media, showing a minor girl confined by the shopkeeper, Altaf, at his general store in Miyaankay Muhallah of Phoolnagar.
According to locals, the girl had come to buy something from the shop, but the shopkeeper held her captive by dropping the shutters.
Locals forced him to open the gate and entered the shop with their cameras on. Inside, the girl was found naked.
An FIR for the shocking incident was registered at the City Phoolnagar Police Station on the complaint of the victim’s father, a janitor at a local hospital.
In the FIR, he stated that his 12-year-old daughter went to Altaf’s shop to buy something. “The shopkeeper lured my daughter into his shop. He shut the shop’s doors and started licking her private parts after taking her trousers off.”
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Upon this, the minor girl cried out for help, drawing the attention of neighbors, who gathered outside the closed shop and forced the owner to open the gates.
After being caught red-handed by the locals, the shopkeeper pushed them and fled the scene.
Kasur police said after registering the FIR, they raided the shopkeeper’s house to arrest him.
During the raid, officials added, the alleged child abuser tried to escape. “When he tried to draw a pistol from his waistband on the police party, it went off, and the bullet went through his private parts.”
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