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. افسر تحقیق (IO) گزارش پیشرفت را به دادگاه ارائه کرد و خواستار اعزام مظنونان به بازداشت قضایی شد. The magistrate accepted the request and sent the four suspects on judicial remand for 14 days. During the hearing, the state prosecutor opposed a plea by the counsel of one of the suspects to discharge his client from the case, contending that he was accused of destroying evidence and aiding in the commission of the alleged offence. At one point, Judge Mahmood noted that just one of the suspects was named in the first information report (FIR) while the rest were arrested after being identified by the two foreign women. مورد هنگامی که این پرونده برای اولین بار در 2 ژوئیه گزارش شد، معلوم شد که پدر یکی از دو زن خارجی با تلفن فوریت های پلیسی 15 تماس گرفته و ادعای آدم ربایی و تجاوز جنسی آنها را گزارش کرده است. Lahore Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Faisal Kamran had told Dawn that police subsequently dispatched a team of senior officials, recovered the women, arrested four suspects and registered an FIR. این پرونده بر اساس بخش های 375-A (تجاوز به عنف) و 365-A (ربودن برای اخاذی) قانون جزایی پاکستان ثبت شده بود. According to the case’s FIR, the women were abducted by five suspects, including a close relative of a senior political personality, who demanded ransom and subjected them to sexual assault during their captivity. The suspects allegedly demanded $1.5 million in ransom before sexually assaulting them, the FIR said. شهادت قربانی Following the registration of the FIR, the recovered foreign women were later produced before a judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts to record their statements under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the sworn statement of one of the women, she and her friend had arrived in Pakistan on June 26, 2026 at the invitation of a local business partner whom they said they had originally met in Singapore in October 2025. The primary suspect, who claimed to be well-connected to influential government figures, arranged their visas under the guise of setting up meetings with high-profile investors for the victim’s company, the Dutch woman said. After spending three days at a hotel in Islamabad — during which they made sightseeing trips to Nathia Gali and attended business presentations — the group travelled to Lahore by car on the afternoon of June 29. مظنون ظاهراً قربانی و همراهش را به بهانه جشن تولد یکی از بستگانش به خانه ای مدرن در لاهور کشاند. اما با ورود به اقامتگاه، آن را خالی یافتند. Within 15 minutes, four men armed with firearms and ropes stormed the premises. The captors immediately tied the victims’ hands behind their backs and subjected both women to physical assault, the complainant alleged. While the primary suspect initially acted as a fellow victim to mask his complicity, it later became evident he was working in tandem with the armed group, she further claimed. She alleged that the captors demanded exorbitant ransom amounts, starting at $2m, threatening to kill the women and sell their organs if they did not comply. The victims were separated, the complainant said, recalling she was held downstairs under armed guard while her companion was kept upstairs. او گفت که در طول شب، مظنون اصلی و همدستی به نام «رئیس» به زور گوشی قربانی را گرفتند و به صورت الکترونیکی 17000 دلار ارز دیجیتال از حساب‌های او انتقال دادند. The woman said she was repeatedly coerced into sending frantic voice notes to her family and friends begging for money. با این حال، او موفق شد یک کلمه رمز پریشانی از پیش تعیین شده - "CARLITOS" - را در پیام های خود وارد کند و خانواده اش در اروپا را بر آن داشت تا بلافاصله به مقامات مجری قانون بین المللی و محلی هشدار دهند. On June 30, she said, an armed assailant dressed in a black local suit sexually assaulted her in the bedroom. On July 1, the key suspect drove the women away, claiming he was taking them to the airport, she said. با این حال، زن هلندی با ردیابی مسیر در یک تلفن همراه مخفی، گفت که متوجه شده است که او عمداً در حال دروغ گفتن و توقف است و در حالی که به طور مشکوکی با "رئیس" ارتباط برقرار می کند، به آرامی رانندگی می کند. Fearing they were being driven to another secondary location, the women began screaming for him to stop. زن گفت که وقتی وسیله نقلیه آنها کمی با ماشین جلویی برخورد کرد، لحظه ای از هرج و مرج را اشغال کردند، زنان از وسیله نقلیه در حال حرکت بیرون پریدند و برای ایمنی با فریاد به مغازه مکانیکی مجاور دویدند. A local traffic police officer spotted the women and immediately summoned emergency backup, the Netherlands citizen said. Suffering from severe trauma, the women initially panicked and fled the first police response vehicle out of fear. با این حال، مقامات ارشد پلیس اندکی بعد در کنار یک افسر زن وارد شدند و با موفقیت قربانیان را آرام کردند و شواهدی را ارائه کردند که نشان می‌دهد مجریان قانون به طور فعال پرونده آدم‌ربایی آنها را در 48 ساعت گذشته پیگیری کرده‌اند. The victims were safely escorted to the police station, where their official statements were secured.