It gives investigators more time to recover weapons, cash and other suspected assets in the case.
A judicial magistrate on Thursday granted police another four-day remand for three suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping and rape of two foreign women, accepting the investigating agency’s request to complete the recovery of weapons and other assets in the case.
Judicial magistrate Azhar Mahmood passed the order after Defense-C police produced suspects Rizwan, Nawaz and Nasir before the court on expiry of their earlier five-day physical remand.
During the hearing, the court asked the prosecution what recoveries had been obtained from the suspects during the previous remand.
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The state prosecutor informed the court that weapons had been recovered from suspects Rizwan and Nasir. The investigating officer claimed that the weapon allegedly used by suspect Nawaz was yet to be recovered.
The investigating officer further stated that the police also had to recover cash, jewelery and a wristwatch allegedly related to the crime and sought additional custody of the suspects to complete the investigation.
After hearing the arguments, the court accepted the prosecution’s request and handed over the three suspects to the police for further four-day physical remand.
The suspects are facing charges in a case registered for the alleged kidnapping and rape of two foreign women.
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The case was registered at the Defensa-C police station after two foreign women reported having been kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
The victim said the women traveled to Pakistan after being invited by an acquaintance they had met in Singapore in October 2025. He added that on June 29 they were kidnapped by an acquaintance and four accomplices, who demanded money for their release. The complaint also contained accusations of repeated sexual assault, threats with weapons, physical abuse and extortion.
A statement from the Lahore police said an emergency call was received through the Punjab emergency helpline after the father of one of the women, who was in the Netherlands, reported the alleged abduction.
Acting on instructions from Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Lahore police launched an operation, using Safe City surveillance to track down the suspects. The statement added that the two women were recovered within approximately two hours, while four suspects were arrested. Police said raids were continuing to arrest the remaining suspects.
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Lahore Police Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Faisal Kamran said that around midnight on July 1, the Safe City Authority received information from a man identified as Carlos, who informed that his daughter had been kidnapped in Pakistan and that he had received a ransom demand.
Kamran said investigators traced a suspect’s family tree and carried out raids at several locations. “During one such raid, residents of a house informed the police that the suspect’s family had been living there as tenants and were believed to have links to the deputy prime minister. The suspect was later identified as Mohammad Raza Dar,” he added.
He said police verified the information with the suspect’s family, obtained his phone number and began tracking his location. “The family would surely have asked the suspect to turn himself in,” he said.
He added that investigators were also examining the possibility that a gang, rather than a single individual, was involved in the incident.
According to the DIG, the suspect was taking the two women to the airport when an altercation broke out inside the vehicle near Bhatta Chowk.
“During the confrontation, the vehicle collided with an object, after which the women jumped out of the vehicle and sought shelter in a nearby filtration plant, from where the police recovered them safe and sound,” he added.
The DIG said the police contacted the Spanish and Dutch embassies after recovering the women. The Spanish embassy informed investigators that one of the women was of Venezuelan nationality.
After consultation with the embassies, the women agreed to undergo medical examinations and subsequently agreed to have their statements recorded before a magistrate under article 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Kamran said the embassies had also requested that the women be repatriated as soon as possible, adding that the police were still investigating all aspects of the case.
