GUJRANWALA: Police on Friday morning claimed to have arrested two suspects over their alleged involvement in raping and filming underage girls in Gujranwala. Families of the victims staged a protest and demanded speedy justice for the victims of the heinous crime. A case against the two individuals, identified as Rashid and Tariq Shah, was registered at the Saddar Police Station by police. The families of the victims, however, had not registered a case against the accused. Police also recovered CCTV cameras, an LCD and other equipment from a video store owned by the accused Area residents staged a protest against the heinous crime while traders shut their shops in a protest and demanded speedy justice and the harshest of punishments for the accused. On Thursday, four members of a gang allegedly involved in the sexual abuse of college students were apprehended from the Samanabad area of the Karachi. DIG West Amir Farooqi said police had recovered videos of the alleged abuse from the suspects, adding that the gang used to con women by making false promises of employment. “The suspects used to abuse women at a farmhouse, and we have found photographs of them carrying weapons on their social media profile,” DIG Farooqi had said. The official said police had registered a case against them at the Samanabad Police Station. Various cases of sexual abuse in Pakistan have surfaced in recent years with the Kasur video scandal being the most shocking in which a gang victimised hundreds of children in Kasur by forcing them to perform sexual acts on camera and later blackmailed the families. Published in Daily Times, March 17th 2018.