The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has places Abid Ali's, the prime suspect in the motorway gang-rape case, on it's black list to prevent him from leaving the country. The federal agency and Punjab police also have alerted the law enforcement authorities across the country.

The Punjab police, which have been desperately searching for Malhi, had made the request to the FIA and sent the particulars of the suspect to multiple teams which are working to trace his whereabouts. According to the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Umer Sheikh, police approached FIA to stop Abid from fleeing the country because putting his name on the Exit Control List (ECL) is a lengthy procedure and could give the suspect a window to leave the country.

Abid was named as the primary suspect in the case after samples collected from the crime scene matched with his DNA from a criminal database of 2013. Police and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) is conducting raids for the arrest of the criminal since last week, however, he still remains at large.

In a bid to know about his whereabouts, police had, last week, detained father and two brothers of Abid from their residence in Sheikhupura. The detainees were then shifted to Lahore for further investigations.

Most wanted man in Pakistan:

Abid Ali is currently the most wanted man in Pakistan with a reward of 2.5 million for information about his whereabouts. The reward was announced by the chief minister Punjab Usman Buzdar.

The incident

Two "robbers" allegedly gang-raped a woman on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway last week while she was waiting with her children for help on the motorway after her car stopped either due to fuel shortage. She called her relative in Gujranwala for help who advised her to call the motorway police while he, himself, left immediately to her rescue and found her terrified with her clothes stained with blood.

As per the police, two armed men found woman alone in her car with her children and forced them to a nearby field at gunpoint and gang-raped her. Punjab Police, in a statement, confirmed the arrests and said that 20 teams of Lahore Police and CIA. The teams are headed by the deputy inspector general of police (investigation), had been constituted on the orders of newly appointed Inspector General Inam Ghani to investigate the case. The police said that they are taking all the necessary measures to catch the culprits.