TAXILA: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested three people for allegedly sexually assaulting two teenage boys in separate incidents.

Addressing a press conference here at Pindigheb police station on Friday, District Police Of ficer (DPO) Syed Khalid Hamdani said two drivers of an oil tanker allegedly subjected their 17-year-old cleaner to sexual torture after drugging him on Feb 2 in Toot village in Pindigheb police area.

Later, they threw him at a deserted place near Toot village where some passersby spotted him and informed the police who shifted him to a local hospital where he recorded his statement to the police.

He told the police that the oil tanker driver and his codriver fir st drug ge d him and then subjected him to sexual assault and torture.

The boy was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Rawalpindi where he died of injuries.

DPO Hamdani said a team headed by DSP Malik Tafseer was constituted which arrested the culprits.

In another incident, a man was arrested on charge of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old shepherd in village Bhadain in limits of Hasanabdal police station on Friday.

Sajid Mehmood reported to police that his son went to the nearby fields to collect fodder for cattle where a man allegedly took him to a nearby abandoned house and molested him. The victim was taken to THQ hospital where the medical examination confirmed the assault.

Police have registered a case against the nominated the suspect under section 377 and 367-A Pakistan Penal Code and subsequently arrested the accused.