Chiniot police arrest six men in vani case

Lahore: Chiniot police have arrested six men accused of vani .

DPO Rao Munir Ahmad Zia told that Muhammad Zafar, Khizar Hayat, Muhammad Ayub, Gulsher, Zahid Hussain and Hafiz Qasim had been arrested.

He said a police team comprising DSP Aalam Sher, DSP Tahir Nawaz, Inspector Chaudhry Muhammad Younus, Inspector Shaukat and Inspector Rana Anwar had been constituted to arrest the remaining suspects.

A panchayat in Mawar Bhattian had declared 22-year-old  Safiya vani following her brother’s marriage to one *Tasneem Bibi without her family’s approval.

Safiya was kidnapped, married forcibly, ‘divorced’, kidnapped again, gang-raped and tied to a tree in the street while stripped, according to the FIR registered with Muhammad Wala, Chiniot, police. “I have issued orders that the investigation be completed at the earliest,” DPO said.