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Lahore University Fall: Student Stabilizes as Police Arrest Suspect, Review Phone Data

Authorities are reviewing whether family pressure over marriage factored into the incident.

Overview

  • Hospital officials say the student is conscious, off the ventilator, stable on oxygen support, and has communicated with relatives, with surgeons reassessing the need for spinal surgery.
  • Police arrested Ahmed Bilal in Narang Mandi in Sheikhupura after linking him to the student’s last phone call before the fall.
  • Forensic examination of mobile records and analysis of CCTV footage are underway to determine the sequence of events, according to investigators and provincial officials.
  • The University of Lahore suspended operations and formed an eight-member inquiry committee to investigate circumstances on campus.
  • The Punjab Women Protection Authority and an expanded medical board are overseeing care and inquiries in the context of a separate recent student suicide at the same campus.