Lahore, February 27 A man has been arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly raping three minor girls, police said on Friday.
The suspect, identified as Tariq, is accused of raping three girls, aged between four and seven, in the Kasur district of Punjab, about 50 kilometers from Lahore.
Senior police officer Essa Sukhera said that the serial rapist assaulted the three minor girls.
"A seven-year-old girl was found lying in a pool of blood in agricultural fields on September 21, 2025. A four-year-old girl was found in an abandoned plot on February 3. A six-year-old girl was found in a semi-conscious state in the fields on February 13. All three minor victims were recovered from locations approximately one to two kilometers away from their homes in Kasur," he said.
Sukhera further said that the rapist would randomly pick up minor girls before taking them to nearby deserted places with the intention of committing rape.
Regarding tracing the serial rapist, the police officer said that the father of one of the victims told police about the possible involvement of an unidentified individual who had visited his shop.
"Acting immediately, police had a major breakthrough after obtaining the mobile phone number of the prime suspect from a local shop where he had visited to transfer money before kidnapping the victim," he said.
"The call data record (CDR) of the suspect's mobile phone revealed his presence at all three locations from where the girls were kidnapped and assaulted," he said and added that the DNA samples of the suspect matched with the three rape incidents.
"During the investigation, serial rapist Tariq confessed to committing the crimes, saying that he had divorced his wife last year and was living alone," the officer said.