Model Iqra Saeed, who had moved from Karachi to Lahore to further her career, was allegedly taken to the hospital a couple of days ago after an attempted murder. She was pronounced dead yesterday. She took ICE-Heroin excessively which may caused her death. Police have found her mobile phones and traced two last calls and Police are searching these two youths who were in contact her.
Lahore Police have registered an FIR in this regard and sources in the department provided that the young model was identified as Iqra, a 22-year-old resident of Gulshan Ravi. Iqra was taken to Government Teaching Hospital Shahdara by three young boys who disappeared from the scene after dropping her at the emergency room.
Iqra was unconscious at the time and the medical team did their best to keep her alive but failed to do so. Her body was then shifted to the morgue for further examination.
Preliminary investigation from Shahdara Police station has revealed that a call was made from the hospital to the police a couple of days ago informing them of the model being brought in. “Two days ago, when our police team was on patrol, we received a call from the hospital about a girl aged 20 to 22 years,” a senior police officer told the South Punjab News. “According to our investigation, the model had been forcefully intoxicated by the three men that dropped her off at the hospital – Usman Rafique, Umer Butt and Hassan Butt.”
The insiders went on to provide that identity of the body was confirmed through her cell phone. “We spoke to her father who revealed that she was from Karachi but had moved to Lahore to work as a model against her parents’ will,” the said. “Further investigation has disclosed that Iqra was struggling to find modelling jobs which led to her getting into the company of the notorious beings that have caused her death.”They continued, “We have registered an FIR against the three men who dropped Iqra off a the hospital. We can only provide you with further details after their arrest. However, we can state that it seems like a murder case.”
It is important to mention here that the past few years have seen various cases of similar nature arise across the city of Lahore. Back in November 2016, popular stage actor Kismat Baig lost her life after being shot eight times by unidentified armed men on her way home from work one night. She thereby joined a long list of stage actors who have suffered similar fates, including Sangum Rana, Yasmeen, Karishma Shah, Naina Nagina Khanum and Nadra.
This leads us to speculate different criminal groups and mafias are still operating in the city that are exploiting vulnerable women from showbiz.
AUTOPSY REPORT
AUTOPSY REPORT
A young model girl who died at a hospital in Lahore’s Shahdara was drugged and gang-raped, police investigation reveals.
Resident of Karachi, Iqra Saeed, 22, was admitted to the Government Teaching Hospital Shahdara in unconscious condition on April 7. Three men brought the victim to the hospital and fled after leaving her in the emergency ward. The autopsy report revealed that the victim overdosed and died.
A police investigator on Wednesday told The Nation that the victim was also gang raped by unidentified men during a dance party somewhere in Lahore. The official while requesting anonymity said that a murder case was registered against three persons on the complaint a policeman. However, no arrest was made till late Wednesday.
According to the FIR, three men including Hassan Butt, Umar Raza Butt, and Usman shifted the woman to the Shahdara Teaching Hospital as her condition got deteriorated late Sunday. The residents of Gulshan-e-Ravi later managed to escape from the hospital. Following the death, the hospital administration alerted the local police. The body was sent to the morgue for autopsy.
Another police officer said the deceased was forcibly drugged by the alleged rapists and that drug overdose caused her death. He said the autopsy report also confirmed that the victim was drugged and gang raped. Initial investigation revealed that the model girl took ICE drug in huge quantity that led to her death.
According to police, the alleged killers could not be arrested immediately since they secured pre-arrest bail from a local court. Further investigation was underway. Drug or ecstasy-related deaths are not rare in this most populated province. But the rate of deaths from drug overdoses among women has soared in recent years. The trend of using narcotics for pleasure is becoming popular among the political elite and students of colleges and universities.
Police sources say several state-run guesthouses, hotels, and hostels have become safe haven for smugglers of narcotics.
In November, a girl student of a private university was found dead in hostel room in Johar Town. A resident of Sialkot, Rozina, 20, was a medical student in Lahore and she was residing in a private hostel in Faisal Garden of Johar Town. Her roommate Arooj phoned police as she saw her body lying on the sofa. She also told the police that Rozina was a ‘drug addict’. In February, another girl of a private university overdosed and died in a similar incident in Raiwind.
Hifsa Irfan was a resident of Faisalabad. The first semester student was studying at the Superior University and she had been living at a hostel near Arraiyan Village.
According to her roommate Mahak, Hifsa was busy at the laptop when she went to sleep in the afternoon. However, when she got up later and asked Hifsa to wake up for the dinner she did not respond. A few years ago, forensic investigation revealed that the PML-N worker, Samia Chaudhry, died after taking narcotics including cocaine in excessive quantity. The 38-year-old political worker overdosed and died in the Lahore’s Chamba House where she had been staying for weeks.
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