A Lahore court on Monday granted the physical remand of six suspects of the Minar-e-Pakistan assault case to police custody, it emerged.
The six suspects were identified by the victim during an identity parade at Lahore’s Camp Jail on September 1.
A total of 160 suspects, in groups of 20, were presented before the victim out of which she recognised six of them.
All six men were jailed in separate cells, and police had earlier informed that they would be presented before the court for a physical remand.
The police had arrested the suspects by tracing them through geo-fencing and face matching technology.
Earlier on Friday, a court released 98 out of the total 104 suspects that have so far been taken in for the Minar-e-Pakistan assault case after TikToker Aisha Akram could only identify six of them during the court proceedings.
At the outset of the hearing, the police produced 98 suspected individuals before Judicial Magistrate Hassan Sarfaraz Cheema.
The police informed the court that the suspects had been taken into custody for manhandling TikToker Aisha Akram inside the Greater Iqbal Park (Minar-e-Pakistan) on Independence Day.
“Akram identified only six out of the 104 suspects presented during an identity parade,” maintained the police. At this, the court dismissed the 98 suspects, directing the police to release them.
Meanwhile, the Punjab deputy inspector-general said that the suspects identified by the victim are the fundamental characters involved in the incident.
He said that all the 400 men nominated as suspects in the First Information Report are not involved in the case. However, the investigation is underway and other culprits will also be arrested soon, he added at the time.
