District and Sessions Judge Ishtiaq Ahmed issued verdicts in two rape cases in which the accused were acquitted due to backing out of the eye witnesses. In the first case, accused Yaseen was prosecuted for raping a woman Ramzan Bibi in the jurisdiction of Sadar Police Station. In the second case, accused Ghazanfar Ali had allegedly raped a woman named Gurria Bibi in Ghulam Muhammadabad area. The eye witnesses in both the cases backed out from their earlier statements and the judge acquitted both the accused due to insufficient evidence. The Punjab inspector general of police (IGP) had directed the CPOs to take action against the eye witnesses who deliberately backed out of their statements in the courts to save the criminals after taking money from the accused parties.
